Societatea pentru protecția Kaiju

Jamie Gray gets a job helping keep huge beasts safe. They live on another Earth. COVID-19 hits New York, where Jamie works delivering food. The job offers little hope of getting ahead. On one trip, Jamie meets Tom, someone Jamie knew before. Tom needs help with a task for an animal welfare group. Jamie agrees but does not know where the job will lead.

The team goes to a warm world parallel to ours. No humans live there. Huge beasts called Kaiju make it their home. They look like dinosaurs. They pose great risks but need help to stay safe. Other people have reached this world, too. Their rash acts could kill millions back on our Earth.

John Scalzi blends science fiction with thrills and humor. This novel suits readers who like strange worlds and huge beasts. It won the 2023 Locus Award. It also reached the Hugo final that year. This Armada edition has Mihai Dan Pavelescu’s translation from English. The original title is The Kaiju Preservation Society.

Scalzi’s life began in California in 1969. He studied at Chicago University, where Saul Bellow taught him. He wrote film reviews and comic columns. He then worked as an editor at America Online. He moved with his wife to Sterling, Virginia. He has worked full-time in literature since 1998. His first novel came out in 2005.

His nonfiction books cover finance, games and film. He also writes about astronomy and literature. He won the 2005 John W. Campbell debut prize. He won a Hugo for a novel in 2013. His blog, Whatever, won a Hugo in 2018. He led the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He held that role from 2010 to 2013.