Review: Giant Monsters, Giant Robots, Aliens and tons of great Childlike Fun!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
If you ever grew up a fan of Saturday morning monster movies, if you ever played in the yard as a kid making like Godzilla tossing around your Hot Wheels, if you ever dreamed it would epic to pilot a giant robot into combat against giant dinosaur like creatures, if you ever wanted, as an adult, to reclaim some of your childhood...then the collection of short stories in Kaiju Rising is exactly what you are looking for.  This collection runs the gamut of incredibly well crafted stories, from Alien invasion, to futuristic armagedeon scenarios to alternate histories set in WWI & WWII...to an amazing story of how children's imaginations and those child's artworks become a bizzare and horrific, yet fun, reality.  Kane Gilmour also gives us an an incredible alternate history of the atomic bombings in Japan combined with a tale of magic of childhood dreams and imagination.  There is a stunning gothiclike tale of monsters in the sewers, a WWI trench drama with a horrifying zombie like twist.  There are also a handful of stories that carry enviromental undertones...stories of how mankind's continued disregard for the Earth and the environment can have, literally, monstorous consequences.  There are one or two stories that may have benefited from some better editing as they lack quality but overall, this collection is well worth the time, either reading it all from front to back or simply reading a story or two at a time in between other reading endeavors as I did.  Also, do not overlook the fabulous artwork that accompanies each tale from some of the comic and sci-fi worlds premier artists.