The Kaiju Preservation Society
With my own, limited academic resources, and scant knowledge to link to anything like current scholarship, the best I can draw upon is my own memories. There was, might still be, a tie-in to the older material.
It was science fiction when the science had to be sound. Based on reality. The original pulps were nothing more than an extension of the “dime westerns,” which were nothing more than quick, fabulist myth-making about the adventures on a sanitized and probably prejudice American West.
By extension, the first of the pulp science fiction was just an extension of the frontier stories, change a horse for rocket ship, and change a six-shooter for a ray-gun.
My own, beloved authors, the masters from that golden age? Hard science, real physics, and ideas that mattered worked into the fabulist tales of derring-do.
Fact, fantasy, friction, and fiction.
It’s an alternative history, or adjunct to the current state, or satire, maybe lovingly pastiche, or perhaps this doesn’t fit a single category.
Starts with “What if?”
Suppose that that the Godzilla franchises were based on a historical record?
How would that play out?
