The Kaiju Preservation Society

by John Scalzi

thought Neal Stephenson did.” “Who?” “He’s a writer. He wrote Snow Crash.”

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

“We call it murder stoner syndrome.”

For all that the outside of the Shobijin looked like rotted steampunk, the passenger cabin was nicely appointed.

was just thinking that Edward’s Tumescent Cloaca would have been an excellent band name.”

“It’s a reverse lampshade,”

“It’s a literary term. It means calling attention to something improbable, acknowledging its improbability in the text, and then moving on.”

coconut crab, those big Pacific Island monsters that could grow a meter long