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Laid off during the early pandemic, a New Yorker takes a vague job with an 'animal rights organization' that turns out to guard an alternate Earth where giant Godzilla-like monsters live.
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Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction
The Kaiju Preservation Society
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Tor Books (Macmillan)
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardcover (US first edition; UK Tor...
- Language
- English
Fired from a food-delivery start-up in the grim spring of 2020, Jamie Gray grabs a mysterious gig with an outfit that turns out to protect, on a parallel Earth, an ecosystem of enormous, nuclear-powered monsters straight out of a Godzilla film.
John Scalzi cheerfully calls The Kaiju Preservation Society a 'pop song' of a novel - light, catchy, made to lift a bad mood - and it delivers exactly that: brisk chapters, wisecracking banter, real (if playful) science about how a hundred-metre beast might work, and a caper against the inevitable billionaires scheming to weaponize the wildlife.
It is not trying to be profound, and its refusal of grandeur is a large part of its charm; this is competence-driven comfort SF, expertly paced and consistently funny. Scalzi's dialogue crackles and his plotting never sags.
For readers who want a joyful, undemanding, wholly entertaining science-fiction adventure - a palate cleanser between heavier books - it is close to perfect, and its Locus Award confirms the craft beneath the fun.
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272
Published
2022
Tor Books (Macmillan)
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Hardcover (US first edition; UK Tor...
Language
English
Science Fiction & Speculative Fiction
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978-0765389121
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