John Scalzi
John Scalzi is a New York Times bestselling science fiction author. His novel Redshirts, an intergalactic sci-fi adventure, won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. His other works include the popular Old Man’s War series. Three novels of which have also been nominated for Hugo Awards. His works also include The Android’s Dream, Agent to the Stars, and Lock In. In addition to the Hugo, John is also the recipient of awards including the Locus, the Seiun, the Kurd Lasswitz, and the Geffen.
John is the former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Also, he served as a creative consultant for the television series Stargate Universe. His blog Whatever is a forum for all things sci-fi. Topics include finance, film, and video games. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog. In addition, he has used the blog for several charity drives.
He writes the “Book of the Dumb” series of books from Portable Press, which chronicle people doing stupid things. He adapted blog entries into the craft book You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing, then into the volume Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever 1998–2008. Your Hate Mail won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2009. The third and fourth collections of blog content are The Mallet of Loving Correction (2013) and Don’t Live For Your Obituary (2017).
John Scalzi is also a writer for the video game Midnight Star. He is executive producer for Old Man’s War and The Collapsing Empire, both currently in development for television. Though best known for his science fiction works, John Scalzi has also written several nonfiction books. These books include The Rough Guide to Money Online, The Rough Guide to the Universe, and The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies.
Born and raised in California, John Scalzi studied at the University of Chicago before settling in Ohio with his wife, daughter, and several pets. You can follow John on Twitter and Facebook.
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Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.
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Redshirts is John Scalzi’s Hugo Award-winning novel of the starship ensigns who were expendable...until they started comparing notes.
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The thrilling, award-winning, bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi, now repackaged for new and old readers alike in the Interdependency Boxed Set.
“The Flow”—the naturally-occurring highway humans use to travel between the stars—is breaking down...Read More
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The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.
The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. ...Read More
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From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, a trade paperback repackage of his extraordinary retelling of the SF classic Little Fuzzy—now with a new cover!
ZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra—as long as the planet is certifiably free of ...Read More
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"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Cannell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty—most of them in someone else's body." —USA Today
John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Time...Read More
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Discover the history of Haden's Syndrome, the virus that created the world of John Scalzi's inventive near-future thrillers Lock In and Head On, in the prequel novella Unlocked.
Not long from now, a virus will sweep the globe. Most will suffer no worse than flu-like symptoms, but an unlucky one percent will be changed...Read More
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The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War....Read More
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Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division
Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help...Read More
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A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States al...Read More
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Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.
The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth ...Read More
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A return to the bestselling Old Man's War universe, by science fiction's fastest-rising new star, told from the point of view of one of the most appealing characters in the series!
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The highly-anticipated conclusion to the science fiction trilogy begun with Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades.
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The sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War
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A stunning novel of the long war for human survival--in a universe replete with hostility
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Live Long and Prosper
Drawing on his experience as a science fiction author, Scalzi discusses sci-fi in the modern era, his own writing process, and living with his head in the stars.
Starter Villain by John Scalzi is a 2024 Hugo Award finalist for Best Novel.
Starter Villain by John Scalzi is a 2024 Alex Award winner.
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Scalzi wins 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts.
You can follow John on Twitter and Facebook. Check out his blog Whatever.
“John was absolutely fantastic! He was an engaging, witty, and thoughtful speaker who held the attention of more than 600 attendees. The feedback from our attendees was great and working with him was a personal and professional pleasure.”
— National Council on Problem GamblingPraise for Starter Villain
“Combining the sarcastic humor of Scalzi’s Redshirts with an origin story for James Bond–like supervillains operating with the competence-porn-level efficiency and work ethic of Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots, this story of snark with a heart reminds readers that the logical conclusion of “dogs have owners, cats have staff” is that cats are management and never let anyone forget it… Highly recommended.”
— Library Journal, Starred Review“Scalzi again examines tropes in a tale of an ordinary individual being cast into an extraordinary situation with his trademark quick pacing, clever banter, and ability to find humor in desperate situations…. With a large print run and a clever premise, Scalzi’s latest will appeal to his legion of fans and draw in new ones.”
— Booklist, Starred Review“In this clever, fast-paced thriller, Hugo Award winner subverts classic supervillain tropes with equal measures of tongue-in-cheek humor and common sense… The result is a breezy and highly entertaining genre send-up.”
— Publishers Weekly“Classic Scalzi set pieces like a class of managerial cats or dolphins on strike – and moments when you will laugh so loudly you will wish you weren’t reading in public.”
— The New Scientist“Witty dialogue, clever world-building and engaging secondary characters make this a satisfying escape from the real world. And of course, if you’ve got a feline companion, Starter Villain is a perfect lazy Cat-urday read.”
— Wall Street Journal“Irreverent and subversive…with James Bond-level bad guys set in the everyday trudge of corporate life a la The Office.”
— Entertainment WeeklyPraise for Redshirts
“John Scalzi sets his imagination to STUN and scores a direct hit. Read on and prosper.”
— Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box“I can honestly say I can’t think of another book that ever made me laugh this much. Ever.”
— Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind“Scalzi takes apart the whole Star Trek universe and puts it back together far more plausibly—and a lot funnier too.”
— Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians“A real joy to read… It’s hard to imagine a reader who wouldn’t enjoy this one.”
— Booklist, starred reviewPraise for The Old Man’s War
“Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalzi’s astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand master…This virtuoso debut pays tribute to SF’s past while showing that well-worn tropes still can have real zip when they’re approached with ingenuity.”
— Publishers Weekly, starred review“Solid…[Scalzi] sidesteps most of the cliches of military science fiction, delivers fast-paced scenes of combat and pays attention to the science underpinning his premise.”
— San Francisco Chronicle“Thought-provoking!”
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