Description: When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world. They're the universe's largest and most dangerous panda - and they're in trouble. It's not just the Kaiju Preservation Society whose found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die. --
Brief description: JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular science fiction authors of his generation. His debut, Old Man's War, won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Redshirts (which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel), The Last Emperox, The Kaiju Preservation Society, and Starter Villain. Material from his blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.
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Praise for The Kaiju Preservation Society
"Scalzi's latest is a wildly inventive take on the kaiju theme"--Booklist, starred review
"Scalzi continues to be almost insufferably good at his brand of good but thinky sci-fi adventure."
--Kirkus Reviews on The Collapsing Empire "Scalzi builds a fascinating new interstellar civilization in order to destroy it...Escapism full of guts and brains."
--Ars Technica on The Collapsing Empire "Provocative and unexpected."
--The Wall Street Journal on The Collapsing Empire