John Scalzi
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in The United States
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Influences
Robert Heinlein, Dorothy Parker, HL Mencken, Coke Zero
Member Since
December 2007
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
60 editions — published 2005 — |
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Redshirts
37 editions — published 2012 — |
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
41 editions — published 2006 — |
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
29 editions — published 2014 — |
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)
33 editions — published 2007 — |
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Fuzzy Nation
5 editions — published 2011 — |
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Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)
26 editions — published 2008 — |
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The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)
23 editions — published 2013 — |
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The Android's Dream
14 editions — published 2006 — |
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Agent to the Stars
25 editions — published 2004 — |
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Upcoming Events
John Scalzi at the Fountain Bookstore
Author appearance, March 24, 2017 06:30PM
Fountain Bookstore, 1312 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA, US
http://www.fountainbookstore.com/scalzi2017
Author appearance, March 24, 2017 06:30PM
Fountain Bookstore, 1312 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA, US
http://www.fountainbookstore.com/scalzi2017
John Scalzi discusses and signs copies of his new novel The Collapsing Empire.
John Scalzi at Parnassus Books
Author appearance, March 25, 2017 02:00PM
Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN, US
http://www.parnassusbooks.net/event/author-event-john-scalzi-author...
Author appearance, March 25, 2017 02:00PM
Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN, US
http://www.parnassusbooks.net/event/author-event-john-scalzi-author...
John Scalzi discusses and signs copies of his new novel The Collapsing Empire.
John Scalzi at Book People
Author appearance, March 26, 2017 03:00PM
Book People, 603 North Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, US
http://www.bookpeople.com/event/john-scalzi-collapsing-empire
Author appearance, March 26, 2017 03:00PM
Book People, 603 North Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, US
http://www.bookpeople.com/event/john-scalzi-collapsing-empire
John Scalzi discusses and signs copies of his new novel The Collapsing Empire.
Interviews
August 2014,
John Scalzi
"His Favorite Books About Epidemics: Put on your hazmat suit before reading these infectious picks from the author of Lock In, a near-future thriller about a global pandemic." ...More
"His Favorite Books About Epidemics: Put on your hazmat suit before reading these infectious picks from the author of Lock In, a near-future thriller about a global pandemic." ...More
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John’s Recent Updates
John
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Jeremy Wagner
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"Awful. 'I did this cool thing, then I saved some people, then I single handedly rescued the mission, even though I was the least qualified, then I came up with this cool idea and got promoted. I was a green superhuman too.' "
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John
joined the group
The Webb Schools Book Club
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“Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
― John Scalzi
― John Scalzi
“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”
― John Scalzi, Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
― John Scalzi, Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
“1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or taste, or whatever). They’re also entitled to express them online.
2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.
3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.
4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.
5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.
6. You may also be twelve.
7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.
8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
[Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]”
― John Scalzi
2. Sometimes those opinions will be ones you don’t like.
3. Sometimes those opinions won’t be very nice.
4. The people expressing those may be (but are not always) assholes.
5. However, if your solution to this “problem” is to vex, annoy, threaten or harrass them, you are almost certainly a bigger asshole.
6. You may also be twelve.
7. You are not responsible for anyone else’s actions or karma, but you are responsible for your own.
8. So leave them alone and go about your own life."
[Bad Reviews: I Can Handle Them, and So Should You (Blog post, July 17, 2012)]”
― John Scalzi
Polls
December 2016 This month's Theme, in honor of the Christmas month:
A book which has either Red or Green colors in the title which also extends to alternate hues.
We are also trying to keep it easy, for the holiday month, so none of these books are over 400 pages.
A book which has either Red or Green colors in the title which also extends to alternate hues.
We are also trying to keep it easy, for the holiday month, so none of these books are over 400 pages.
This poll will start on October 30th @ 12:01am
& the poll will end on November 12th @11:59pm.
Dude, I Do Not Care!
by Newt Rahl
by Newt Rahl
7 total votes
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The Webb Schools Book Club
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— last activity Jan 13, 2014 09:48AM
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Thanks for the add. Have been a fan since I read Fuzzy Nation. It made me laugh out loud while alone in my room. Kind of weird to break the silence of being alone by hearing yourself laugh. I actually read Fuzzy Nation after I read Cosmic Computer.
love what i've read so far; my son really really loved the ending and the whole philisophical side; i liked the action but i'm a simpleton
Your books are responsible for my brother getting into Science Fiction.
I sent him Old Man's War when he was in Iraq. He loved it, and it soon got passed around to the guys in his unit, who loved it as well.
You can't go wrong sending Military Sci-Fi to a bunch of ground-pounders :)
Now he has started reading Asimov, Clarke, and many more of the classics. Mwuhahaha, I had the last laugh. He used to razz me when we were teenagers for being a science fiction nerd :)
I sent him Old Man's War when he was in Iraq. He loved it, and it soon got passed around to the guys in his unit, who loved it as well.
You can't go wrong sending Military Sci-Fi to a bunch of ground-pounders :)
Now he has started reading Asimov, Clarke, and many more of the classics. Mwuhahaha, I had the last laugh. He used to razz me when we were teenagers for being a science fiction nerd :)
Oct 06, 2016 03:33AM
Oct 06, 2016 03:33AM