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

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prose is action- and humor-driven and includes just the right amount of the current climate to anchor the setting without wallowing in it," noting that his "first stand-alone novel in several years is a wild ride filled with takes on pop culture, startups, governmental influence, and science. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Only later Jamie finds out that we are talking Godzilla scale creatures, on a parallel Earth where everything is ready to kill you. Jamie and the other KPS team members must somehow cross over themselves and recover Bella, both to preserve the Kaiju secret and protect both worlds from catastrophe.

The Kaiju Preservation Society pays homage to monster-movies such as Godzilla and Jurassic Park, but with a twist. However, the way Dain constantly undermines Violet's abilities and his lack of character development make this an unconvincing storyline. My friends at the University of Chicago thought I was nuts to pack up and move out to New York to work for a start-up. I already know this is going to be one of my comfort reads and I can see myself re-reading this multiple times in the future. As a result, the story is action-packed and fast-paced, but Violet is a strange mix of pure competence and total passivity, always managing to come out on the winning side.I even loved reading the author’s comments at the back of the book detailing his writing journey through 2020. My suspension of disbelief was always honored beautifully, and only required where absolutely necessary for the story.

The story is sort of combination of Jurassic Park and Redshirts (not the latter’s meta parts, but the vibe of four new people being dropped together into a strange new environment and learning about it at the same time as the reader).

Over time nuclear blasts have weakened the barrier between our Earth and another Earth where huge dinosaur sized creatures, Kaiju, roam freely. And as a final note, I really want to give out a quick shout-out to all you guys who lift things for a living.

Everyone has that favorite catchy song they like to put on, a guilty pleasure to turn to when life is getting you down and you need something to cheer you up and lighten the mood.It’s not what dreams are made of, even before the Covid 19 lockdown arrives in New York, rendering Jamie’s flatmates unemployed and dependent on a salary that was already struggling to accommodate one person, let alone three. It’s just delightful this way, even for those of us who before this book thought “Kaiju” was just a funny word. I hadn't realized when I read the book the first time that Scalzi manages to tell the entire tale without revealing Jamie Gray's gender. 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).

Then I looked at the other reviews and saw everyone throwing the word "fun" around, talking about how they had a good time reading it, how it would make for a great flight/beach read and stuff. For reasons, Jamey is one of several new employees transported to a “slightly different” Earth to help protect our Earth from that Earth’s Kaiju—and to protect them from us.I stayed up waaay past my bedtime during the working week to finish this which should tell you all you need to know about just how addictive this is.