The Kaiju Preservation Society

De: John Scalzi

Narrado por: Wil Wheaton

The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first stand-alone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times best-selling Interdependency trilogy.

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 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 who's found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.

©2022 John Scalzi (P)2021 Audible, Inc.

A pop song for dark days

This book is an absolute delight — inventive, funny, and wonderfully human. As usual, Wil Wheaton does a great job of bringing Scalzi’s words to life.

A Great Ride!

I love John Scalzi's work, and this book was great, as expected. Fun characters, a great premise, and a lot of great humor, not to mention Wil Wheaton's great narration just made this book great to listen to.

Exactly the book I needed!

Everything about this book was so enjoyable! I love that the balance of sarcasm/cynicism of the characters never veers into hipster apathy. The core characters feel real and alive.

Thank you

Thank you Scalzi! You are my favorite author and Wil Wheaton my favorite narrator! I've been waiting for this book for a while now and I'm so glad it was fun to make! I felt connected to this weird book about Kaiju more than any other book this year.

exactly what I needed to read. fun times.

Thanks, Scalzi and Wheaton, for the mental escape I so needed. If KPS is looking for any more biologists, I could use some more time away from Earth one.

Another winner from Scalzi

sometimes, the author can get too dark for me, but not this time. Always a good story teller and an incredible imagination, John comes up with an unlikely, but possible, story line and makes a grotesque and frightful monster loveable. Not to mention the characters- all very likeable, just wish they all could have made it. But without a little angst there isn't much of a story I guess. Anyway, one of his best, and I'm hoping he has more stories like this in his weird, fantastic brain that he's willing to share.

A Pop Song

In the afterward, Scalzi describes writing this in the midst of the pandemic and other difficulties — trying to write something dark and complex and realizing that instead what he needed to write was the equivalent of a pop song, something light and catchy and buoyant. Will this story change your life? Probably not. But it will probably make it more bearable.

Wheaton IS the audio Scalzi

I have listened to all of John Scalzi’s audiobooks. The narrators are all good but the one narrator that can literally bring Scalzi to life is Will Wheaton. When I see a Scalzi book narrated by Will, I don’t even read the description. I just get it because I KNOW I will be totally immersed . I hope you enjoy the pair!!

The narrator delivers

It was thoroughly enjoyable - a pop book, like the author himself described it in the Afterword. The storyline has couple of twists, and it has an escapist undertone that makes it fun to follow and relate to. A classic John Scalzi sarcasm, delivered superbly by Will Wheaton.

1 Star Off for Wheaton

Will Wheaton was probably the wrong choice for this book. No matter what he says, he always sounds like he's talking down to you, explaining things loudly and slowly as if he's speaking to a particularly dense child. The story itself is pure millenial/gen-Z wish fulfillment, and is pretty solid overall. The descriptions of the kaiju and the personalities of the cast are all very well done. The cast itself is refreshingly diverse (bonus points for NB representation without making a whole thing out of it) with a wide array of personalities that makes them all feel unique. All in all, I enjoyed it, but I probably wouldn't relisten any time soon.