CRUCIBLE

I'm a big GODZILLA fan.  I have been for pretty much as long as I can remember.  I've seen all of the "cannon" movies (as of this writing), and I even have a whole pile of them on video and DVD.

I've always wanted to write a Godzilla story -- something in the vein of Godzilla vs. The Thing (Mothra) or Ghidrah: The Three-Headed Monster (stories with both cool monster action and a good human story).  Unfortunately, as of yet, I haven't been able to turn up any Big G writing assignments.  (I'll keep looking, though!)

One day, my buddy and L5R editor Rob King asked if I'd like to write a monster story for Magic: The Gathering.  Well, I didn't know much about monsters in Magic, but I picked up some books on the subject and paged through them, selecting monsters that might be fun to write.  (My choices tended toward Lovecraftean and Kaiju types.)  Then I sent Rob some story ideas.

When we discussed them, I mentioned that one of them was a Godzilla type of story.  Rob, also being a G-Fan, said, "Why don't you do that one."

And so, I did.

CRUCIBLE is my unofficial Godzilla story.  It's got the firey moster rampaging through an oriental-type setting (at least, as oriental as I could get in Magic).  It also has shifty opportunists, an heroic woman, and some pretty cool village elders.  In some ways, this would be more easily adapted as a Dai Majin (the Giant Majin -- living statue) story, than a Big G story.  IN any case, it's still a kaiju (giant monster) story at heart.

Naturally, it also features my breezey prose and heavy doses of action.

You can read CRUCIBLE by purchasing MONSTERS OF MAGIC at Amazon.  Just click the link at left.