Kaiju is like reading a popcorn flick, it knows what it’s about and leans into it which I appreciated. Plus it makes a lot more sense when you read the afterword (spoiler: he wrote it during the covid-19 pandemic). Yeah, I think you’ve surmised his writing style and approach perfectly!
Did you ever read Red Shirts? I put it off for a long time because it sounds so dumb (essentially the side people in a Star Trek-like universe figuring out that they’re treated as expendable), but it’s actually great.
I’ve not yet, I’d heard about it and then became more interested to read it after I watched a bit of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Now it’s a matter of getting to it in my tbr 😅, glad to hear you enjoyed it – that bodes well!
Unrelated digression about another thread of ours:
I watched the Klara and the Sun movie, and damn that was weird in a disappointing way.
Kaiju is like reading a popcorn flick, it knows what it’s about and leans into it which I appreciated. Plus it makes a lot more sense when you read the afterword (spoiler: he wrote it during the covid-19 pandemic). Yeah, I think you’ve surmised his writing style and approach perfectly!
Did you ever read Red Shirts? I put it off for a long time because it sounds so dumb (essentially the side people in a Star Trek-like universe figuring out that they’re treated as expendable), but it’s actually great.
I’ve not yet, I’d heard about it and then became more interested to read it after I watched a bit of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Now it’s a matter of getting to it in my tbr 😅, glad to hear you enjoyed it – that bodes well!
Unrelated digression about another thread of ours:
I watched the Klara and the Sun movie, and damn that was weird in a disappointing way.
Wasn’t it? It makes me sad to think so many people will think that’s what the book was like.