I was expecting Jurassic Park (but with dragons) and that’s totally on me, because this is more of a scientific jargon-filled character driven story, which is tough when you don’t actually CARE about the characters (except the dragons/kaiju). My master’s thesis had been on bioengineering in science fiction from Frankenstein through the Murderbot novellas. And although Kaiju are their universe's largest and most dangerous animal, they need support to survive. Go ahead and eat all you want, but avoid excessively fatty foods, since one of these is going to tell your body to purge fats in a way that absolutely challenges normal sphincter control.

Kaiju Earth is a torrid world, high in oxygen and radioactive volatiles, dominated by Kaiju and teeming with lesser predators.I just finished reading John Scalzi's next novel, The Kaiju Preservation Society, which comes out next March. There’s nothing all that unique about this novel except for the setting and I won’t spoil that—it’s its redeeming quality. The novel begins with a job performance review, an unruly beanbag, a job frustratingly lost and then an unexpected offer quite like no other. After Japanese filmmakers were inspired by rumors of the initial breakthrough to make " Kaiju" movies such as Godzilla and its successors, the creatures were dubbed Kaiju. Mankind first became aware of this world in the wake of World War II, when the use of atomic bombs opened temporary portals between the worlds, to which and through which the creatures were attracted by the radiation fallout, on which they feed.

the information on the Covid-vaccine is downright false: it does not immunise people against the virus: you cannot conveniently take off your masks in close quarters, just because you're vaccinated and be absolutely sure, you're safe. I thought, at first, that we were going to taken on an interesting deconstruction of monster movie tropes.the names for the people of ethnicieties other than American are inconsistent with the RL naming conventions of said ethnicity. John Scalzi's newest book is brought down by an under-developed, rushed plot that's focused more on the “society” of the title than the “kaiju. Too bad Jamie’s boss has no interest in hearing them, however, and our hapless protagonist ends up losing his job right as the world enters the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In fact I’m a bit picky with sci-fi generally, having a penchant for time travel (I know, some consider this a different genre) and stories I can get my limited imagination around.

Smart and thrillingly written, with enough banter to fill a studio’s worth of gag reels, all teetering just on the sharp edge of absurdity, and with a cast of misfit characters that the reader can’t help but fall in love with from page one, what is not to adore in this shaggy Godzilla story? The prose is pure Scalzi when he’s not trying too hard to be all deep and meaningful; unlike some of his more recent projects, there is no whiff of pretention here, just his quirky sense of humor coming through in all its snarky glory.

It’s just delightful this way, even for those of us who before this book thought “Kaiju” was just a funny word. Jamie Gray gets demoted from an executive position right as the 2020 pandemic hits New York, by the Boss From Hell. There's a threat to the kaiju, because otherwise why would you need a preservation society, and stuff happens, because it's a Scalzi novel. Over time nuclear blasts have weakened the barrier between our Earth and another Earth where huge dinosaur sized creatures, Kaiju, roam freely.It had an abundance of that irreverent humour and banter I associate with the author's writing style. I have the privilege of being able to retreat from reality for a few days when the world seems too heavy.