The Kaiju Preservation Society: Shortlisted for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel

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Angrily consume your bacon on the toilet, is my advice.” Dr. Lee lifted the first syringe. “Ready?” The tone of the novel was definitely my favorite part. I love the dry humor and constant banter between characters. I also appreciated their sense of camaraderie. And the Kaiju!! Holy crap, the Kaiju. They were so cool to read about – it made me feel, for a small moment, like I was a Kaiju naturalist on this grand adventure myself, which was awesome. KPS is not, and I say this with absolutely no slight intended, a brooding symphony of a novel. It’s a pop song. It’s meant to be light and catchy, with three minutes of hooks and choruses for you to sing along with, and then you’re done and you go on with your day, hopefully with a smile on your face.” — Scalzi’s Author’s Note.

I’m not going to delve too deeply into the plot, suffice to say that an unemployed sci-fi ‘expert’ finds himself transported to a parallel Earth in which humongous flying creatures are considered a species heading for extinction and therefore worthy of treatment that in this Earth are afforded to Giant Pandas. There’s a lot of science here, a good deal of humour and a posse of characters with PhDs.It was his turn to laugh. “I’m not a mercenary. What I do is much, much cooler. And much more interesting.” I was suddenly aware of my emphatic body language, perhaps made more emphatic by the fact that I, like the dude, was wearing a face mask, because New York City was a plague town in a plague country and any potential vaccine was still undergoing double blind studies somewhere we were not. “Sorry,” I said. “At one point in my life my dissertation was going to be on utopian and dystopian literature. As you might expect, Snow Crash was in there as one of the latter.” I nodded, and turned again to go. They didn't consider that it was a cross-dimensional barrier. They came through to our world because it never occurred to them that they COULDN'T.” pg. 165 This collision of academic hubris and human foibles is replete with pop culture jokes…………..and it worked well for me.

Maybe John Scalzi’s books won’t change your life but they can make living it just a bit less unpleasant.I’m glad to hear you say that. Because the reason we’re here is to talk about your future with füdmüd. Where best to place you, so you can utilize that passion you so clearly feel.” Well on his way to a doctorate in econ from the prestigious University of Chicago, Jamie Gray believes he has life figured out. So, he jumps to a New York City job with a “start-up” and starts to make things happen for himself and this company.