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

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Although this backstory is interesting, I couldn't help but sense an underlying defensiveness in Scalzi’s words, a need to justify this book that he knows is a whole lot of wasted potential. But it also means that restaurants are going to be pinched because they won’t be able to do table service.

And if this passage doesn’t make you chuckle let alone laugh out loud, we are probably not meant to be friends. Turns out, these "pandas" are in mating trouble and not all humans want to preserve them and their world. She was also the first rider to ever bond with two dragons: Tairn, a powerful black dragon with a distinguished battle history, and Andarna, a baby dragon too young to carry a rider. You wanted to see how much it would cost for me to compromise the safety of everyone on this aircraft, me included, to assert your dominance.That and the tendency among KPS staff to celebrate with alcohol and feasting (plus ukeleles and staff change-over rituals). 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. 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. There's no real build up or anything, we just find out that this exists, is known by governments and other rich people and that's that.

There’s nothing all that unique about this novel except for the setting and I won’t spoil that—it’s its redeeming quality. His tone was immediately breezy, with an air of cynicism and he executed banter with razor-sharp precision.Most of the book is concerned with just setting up the world and how it exists and then there's a tacked on ending to add some drama.

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. Lee pointed to one of the last syringes in the longest tray—“in one in about two hundred fifty injections, the recipient feels the urge for, let’s just say, intense and homicidal violence. It realigned the beanbag so I was in a slightly less compacted position, but my tablet slid into the well my body had created. I even loved reading the author’s comments at the back of the book detailing his writing journey through 2020.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. It's also grounded in the utter shitness that was 2020, and actually that was pretty cathartic to read too. The book is full of action and just as full of plot holes, including scenes that are illogical or disconnected from the main narrative. The table was one of those ones that had a magnetic bead that dragged around blinding white sand under the glass, making geometric patterns as it did so.