John Scalzi (b. 1969- ) is an American science fiction author. He is a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Scalzi became interested in science fiction as a child and graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1991. His influences include authors Robert Heinlein and Orson Scott Card. He wrote his first novel, Agent to the Stars, in 1997 and published it on his website in 1999. His most notable novels are the Old Man’s War series (2005-2015), which follows an elderly man recruited into a war for space colonization. Other series include Android’s Dream, Lock In, Interdependency, and The Dispatcher. Other standalone novels include Fuzzy Nation (2011), Redshirts (2012), and Starter Villain (2023). The Kaiju Preservation Society features many science fiction elements, including kaiju and extremely advanced technology and medicine.

Scalzi’s political beliefs greatly inform The Kaiju Preservation Society. Scalzi is an avowed feminist and supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. His views on gender identity and gender roles appear throughout the novel. For example, Jamie’s gender identity remains ambiguous, undermining the impulse to attach gender role assumptions to them. This allows Jamie’s actions to define them, rather than their gender.