![]() ![]() Where else would you find a Die Hard pastiche set in a Godzilla building? This time around, the setting and time frame allow the author to pull from fresh material like anime and action movies. ![]() Unfortunately, various unsavoury characters, from cyberterrorists to doomsday cultists to a mysterious vampire elder, have decided to crash the party and end the 20th century with a bang.Īs ever, the mind boggles at Newman’s deft ability to soak up so many disparate influences from across pop culture and weave them all into one coherent original tale. In a dinosaur-shaped skyscraper, no less. In Daikaiju, the action jumps forward to the turn of the millennium where the world’s rich and famous, whether alive or undead, have gathered in Tokyo for the occasion. ![]() A slighter read than earlier books, it’s essentially the second half of the previous novel, One Thousand Monsters, as it checks in on the same setting 100 years later, but it also acts as a possible finale to the vampire-filled alternate universe. The latest instalment in Kim Newman’s ever-expanding Anno Dracula series – which now consists of six novels, a short story collection, and a comic book – is here. ANNO DRACULA 1999: DAIKAIJU / AUTHOR: KIM NEWMAN / PUBLISHER: TITAN BOOKS / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW ![]()
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