World Trade Center in popular culture

The World Trade Center's Twin Towers appear on the cover of Wilt Chamberlain's 1991 reissue of his book A View From Above.

[1] and in Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse, the prequel novel of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters anime film, the giant mantis Kamacuras appeared in New York City in May 1999, and proceeded to destroy the World Trade Center and devastate much of the city, leaving 2.5 million casualties.

The Towers also appeared on the paperback cover of Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's iconic novel of 1980s New York.

[citation needed] Philippe Petit's tightrope walk in 1974 between the two towers is fictionalized in Colum McCann's novel of 1970s New York, Let the Great World Spin.

The fall of the towers forms part of the plot of Ken Kalfus' novel A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, and the attack also appears on its paperback cover.

The original World Trade Center in March 2001. The tower on the left, with the antenna spire , was 1 WTC. The tower on the right was 2 WTC.