The Kaiju Preservation Society

by John Scalzi

“Deliverators. That’s what we’re calling them now. Clever, right? I thought up the term.” “I thought Neal Stephenson did.” “Who?” “He’s a writer. He wrote Snow Crash.” “And that’s, what, a Frozen sequel?” “It’s a book, actually.”

My master’s thesis had been on bioengineering in science fiction from Frankenstein through the Murderbot novellas.

“Edward and Bella?” I said. “You named these kaiju after friggin’ Twilight?”

“That thing looks like H. P. Lovecraft’s panic attack.”

“Love you, kaiju nerds,” Aparna said, both paraphrasing the movie Pitch Perfect and putting out her fist.