{"id":52432,"date":"2025-09-14T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52432"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T23:25:25","slug":"the-kaiju-preservation-society-by-john-scalzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/09\/14\/the-kaiju-preservation-society-by-john-scalzi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:356,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/88f811b2-16d3-4e2d-a2c2-942a3a2569b7&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 52 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/88f811b2-16d3-4e2d-a2c2-942a3a2569b7\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was fun, and I can totally see it as a mid-pandemic \u201cjust need to have fun writing something\u201d lark of a book. Having recently watched the first season of the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters series (set in one of the recent Godzilla timelines), it was amusingly easy to see this as an extension of that\u2026or vice versa, for that matter. It did skimp a bit on actually <em>describing<\/em> any of the creatures (the kaiju are big, some have wings, claws, and\/or teeth, they have parasites that are also dangerous, use your imagination for anything else), but while a little odd, I can cope.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4939.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Kaiju Preservation Society\" title=\"IMG_4939.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 52\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: This was fun, and I can totally see it as a mid-pandemic &#8216;just need to have fun writing something&#8217; lark of a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-52432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-john-scalzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52434,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52432\/revisions\/52434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}