Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy.  I run this segment in conjunction with the Can’t-Wait Wednesday meme that is currently running at Wishful Endings.  Stay tuned to see reviews of these books when I get a copy of them.  In this week’s Waiting on Wednesday, I feature one of the more intriguing and entertaining sounding novels of early 2022 with The Kaiju Preservation Society by awesome author John Scalzi.

John Scalzi is a talented and thrilling author who has written a great collection of science fiction novels in the last 15 years.  Following his debut series, the Old Man’s War novels, Scalzi has written a unique and diverse collection of science fiction books, ranging from high-concept epics to outrageous comedic adventures.  Some of his best works include the books in The Interdependency series, The Android’s Dream, Fuzzy Nation and the Lock In novels, all of which are incredibly inventive pieces of fiction.  So far, I have only read one of his novels, Redshirts, which proved to be a particularly hilarious parody of Star Trek that followed a group of redshirts who become aware of their impending doom and tried to change their destiny.  Redshirt was a fantastic book that I had an excellent time read, and I am eager to see some of Scalzi’s other works.

As luck will have it, Scalzi has a great novel coming out in early 2022 and boy does it sounds fun.  This book is The Kaiju Preservation Society, which pretty much caught my attention the moment I heard its name.  The Kaiju Preservation Society will follow a group of animal rights activists who attempt to protect massive, endangered Kaiju in an alternate dimension from hunters and other humans seeking to kill them.  Of course, things are likely going to go wrong, and I am sure that there will be all manner of chaos and destruction.  Scalzi will hopefully take this opportunity to parody various monster movies, and I look forward to seeing his take on Kaiju and their interactions with humans.  Set for release in mid-March 2022, The Kaiju Preservation Society sounds like a really awesome novel, and I have absolutely no doubt that I am going to love it.

Synopsis:

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.

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.