Spoilers tag in the title, literally read no further if you don’t want the book spoiled. >!So I just finished The Kaiju Preservation Society(TKPS) and until the last couple of chapters, it was kind of just an “okay” book. Some fun world building and interesting though very loose ideas about how real kaiju could exist. The last couple of chapters however gave me a greater appreciation for it, and the more I think about it the more I think the book is kind of perfect for/of the time it was written.!<
>! If you’ve read it then you already know it all but I still want to talk about it. This book isn’t the first to do evil corporation messing with biology it shouldn’t. Hell it’s a sci-fi trope, look at Alien, Jurassic Park, and Avatar (not to mention countless others). But maybe because TKPS takes place relatively contemporarily, during the pandemic like it does, with the villain being a startup ceo for a food delivery company and heir to a corporate empire/legacy it felt more real and relevant. Maybe this is partially as effective towards me because I did my stint as a food delivery driver. Not to mention the villain’s shades of “Elon Musk”(who I thought it was hilarious that even at his most villainous he distanced himself from ““We’re *not* friends,” Sander’s said sounding defensive.” sent me). There’s just something about the Sanders and Tensorial that seperates them from Weyland Yutani, and InGen. Maybe it was how Sanders plot directly and cynically tied into the 2020 presidential election, or how he knew it would cause market chaos and he was ready to short.!<
>!Anyways maybe it’s because I’m already a bit radicalized against capitalism, but I think this book did it perfectly. It was a little heavy handed, a little predictable, but still hit just right for me there in the end.!<
by _Fun_Employed_