Gojiro

His is a name to make populations panic, movie producers rejoice, and children of the nuclear age offer up telepathic incantations of undying devotion. But how, when, and why did this monarch among cold-blooded creatures come to be? What inhuman, Einsteinian hand or eye framed his fearful symmetry? And what is the unbreakable pact, the sacred atomic bond, that links this spectacular saurian to Komodo, a.k.a. the Coma
Boy--Hiroshima's most celebrated survivor? From simple South Seas lizard to cinema superstar, from Radioactive Island to Hollywood to a face-to-face showdown with his maker, Joseph Prometheus Brooks, father of the Heater, Destroyer of Worlds... now his story can be told--in an epic as big and awesome as the beast whose name it bears.

A postnuclear, postpunk manifesto of evolution and spiritual redemption, Mark Jacobson's brilliantly inventive Gojiro carves a new niche in the rich diversity of speculative fiction.