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Booklog 20/2022: John Scalzi: The Kaiju Preservation Society
Compared to some Scalzis, this is lightweight, but fun. In his afterword Mr S likens it to a pop song rather than a classical symphony, and that's about right, but it's still well worth reading. Jamie Gray loses his executive job and in the middle of a pandemic ends up working as a food delivery driver. A chance meeting with an old acquaintance leads him to taking a job with an animal rights organisation doing grunt work for a field team. What he doesn't know is that the job is on another world (an alternate earth, deadly on many levels) and the animals in question are enormous (more than enormous) Kaiju, equipped with biologically developed nuclear reactors, and covered in deadly parasites, any one of which can take down a full-sized human. Jamie and his group of friends - also new to the KPS - have barely settled into the world when disaster strikes, and they're the ones on the spot. A real page-turner. Highly recommended.