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Kaiju Apocalypse #3
Kaiju Apocalypse III
Though scattered, ragtag groups of humans still continue to fight back, the war with the Kaiju was lost. Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction and the world has become a wasteland of dead cities and scorched Earth. One scientist has a plan to end the Kaiju once and for all - but will it come at too high a cost?
76 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 28, 2014
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Eric S. Brown
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August 27, 2023
Authors Eric S. Brown & Jason Cardova bring us the final in the Kaiju Apocalypse trilogy. The only survivor from the first book the Doctor that came up with the weapon that killed the Kaiju Overmind is back and he has a weapon that will destory the planet killing everything. But far away in a bunker of one of the old City States is a tribe of other survivors who know that one day the Dog Kaiju will get them but they get a radio working and are contacted by that doctor who sets them on a course for that will end everything. This is a great short book and I highly recommend it if you've ready the first two books in the trilogy.
April 8, 2023
I love these books. They are a fun read for your lunch break.
January 25, 2016
Another short Kaiju story for me, this time completing a trilogy I bought a few years ago. The first one is already post-apocalyptic, then the second had a much more intriguing premise and story - naturalish characters and a decent plot. This one seems to be a little bit of a regression, unfortunately, but is still miles better than the first entry in the trilogy.
After the catastrophic events of the last story, in which a kaiju the size of the planet chased after the returning human seedship (a great movie plot), the world has regressed to a sad tribal group - even the last standing cities are dead and gone, and only a small group of people remains. Led by a child, for some reason, the group makes radio contact with the last doctor on the planet - a man locked inside a safehouse for years and years, trying to figure out how to solve the kaiju problem. He's arrived at the idea of just straight blowing up the world, trying to rid the universe of the kaiju threat. Our group travels to the city of Lemuria to find the button to blow up the world.
With some elbow grease and some effort, this could be a really well-told story. As with the previous entries, the stories aren't the problem, really - it't the fetishizing of warfare, equipment, and general "badassery." A solid step in this series would be to take the characters further, to spend a lot more time on them rather than barreling through the plot as fast as possible. These kinds of stories seem like they're begging to be novel length.
Overall, this one I think started out with the right intentions, but then devolved into the same stuff that plagued the first one - poor characters, weird moments to try different "cool" stunts and ideas. If we're allowed to grow and develop with these characters rather than get a sketch of who they are at the beginning of the story, their deaths will mean something rather than be a tiny bump in the road.
Overall, I'm glad I read them - I know what I'm up against in part of the kaiju market a little bit, at least.
After the catastrophic events of the last story, in which a kaiju the size of the planet chased after the returning human seedship (a great movie plot), the world has regressed to a sad tribal group - even the last standing cities are dead and gone, and only a small group of people remains. Led by a child, for some reason, the group makes radio contact with the last doctor on the planet - a man locked inside a safehouse for years and years, trying to figure out how to solve the kaiju problem. He's arrived at the idea of just straight blowing up the world, trying to rid the universe of the kaiju threat. Our group travels to the city of Lemuria to find the button to blow up the world.
With some elbow grease and some effort, this could be a really well-told story. As with the previous entries, the stories aren't the problem, really - it't the fetishizing of warfare, equipment, and general "badassery." A solid step in this series would be to take the characters further, to spend a lot more time on them rather than barreling through the plot as fast as possible. These kinds of stories seem like they're begging to be novel length.
Overall, this one I think started out with the right intentions, but then devolved into the same stuff that plagued the first one - poor characters, weird moments to try different "cool" stunts and ideas. If we're allowed to grow and develop with these characters rather than get a sketch of who they are at the beginning of the story, their deaths will mean something rather than be a tiny bump in the road.
Overall, I'm glad I read them - I know what I'm up against in part of the kaiju market a little bit, at least.
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October 13, 2015
Kaiju Apocalypse was a very sad story. But I have to be honest, I always wondered how it would be like to read or view a story with no happy ending for ANYONE involved. Well, this installment by Eric Brown and Jason Cordova gave me that experience. I didn't like the feeling left behind by it, but I did understand why this ending had to happen, which is why I gave this book 5 hearts. A tragedy story wise but a success book wise.
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