The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi

出版社

Tor Books

出版时间

2022-03-15

ISBN

9780765389121

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling 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 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 have found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die.

JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular SF 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,and Redshirts (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), and 2020's The Last Emperox. Material from his blog, Whatever, has also earned him two other Hugo Aw...

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都不用改编,这本书可以直接当作剧本去拍电影。对话超级幽默,一边读一边笑出声。别看这本书插科打诨,其实有些话很有深度。比如sanders 关于创业的看法,以及sanders关于核爆嫁祸中国,引导大选的一套流程,行云流水歪理邪说,但现实就是这样……搞笑但讽刺。最后预祝雨果奖取得好成绩呀哈哈~
很Scalzi,很formulaic,还行。
从封面画风,我一直以为Kaiju是某个太平洋岛国之类的。对日系从未感冒过的我一直读了几章,真正进入KPS之后,才明白这是日漫中的怪兽!画风顿时迥别于我原来的预期!非常轻松幽默的科幻小品文,风格与作者处女作相似。
美国人的轻松幽默在这部sci-fiction里已经尽数体现了。 被万恶资本家开了之后,“我”,一个quit phd去美国饿了么工作的科幻爱好者,终于在纽约封城时期被迫送外卖,最后连外卖都要没得送了。好就好在,柳暗花明又一村,“我”碰到老同学拿个内推offer美美开始新事业。给钱很多,做六月休三月,帮还学生贷款,五险一金,深度体检,优秀同事,靠谱leader,读者我直接酸死。就是工作内容不明,问就是“I lift things”;通勤时间以天为单位,可是管他呢,来不及犹豫了,入职!(开看!) 要是封城期间读到这本书,肯定有如听仙乐耳暂明的感觉。倒霉社畜渴望的一切快乐要素,凑齐了。
very scalzi
不错的通勤读物
二阳。躺着读完了一本诞生于2020,lockdown 的书。就像作者在后记里写的,这就是一首轻松的pop song,一部异世界老博士历险记,and they did preserve a kaijiu!
太好看了(满地打滚)(满地打滚)(满地打滚)Mission accomplished!
3.5 看到这本书的第一个字(甚至不是正文的第一个字而是标题的第一个字)就感受到了nerd警告😂然后它也真的很nerdy,加上Wil Wheaton的narration就有点爆表了……真的是很2020的一本书,也许如果我去年隔离期间开始听这本书会更喜欢一些,很轻松很愉快很intense但也很简单很套路,可以不用脑子就觉得很享受的那种科幻(但是真的,用暮光之城男女主命名怪兽到底是怎么想的啊!(also意外发现这里有一个主要角色是enby全程都用they这个pronoun,看来全世界觉得换个pronoun都很困难的只有()
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