John Scalzi

Author of Old Man's War

Includes the names: J. Scalzi, John Scalzi, Hjohn Scalzi, Scalzi; John, Johnl Scalzi, John Scalzi (Editor) Subterranean Press

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John Michael Scalzi was born May 10, 1969 in California. He attended the University of Chicago. During his 1989 -1990 school year he was the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon. After graduating in 1991, Scalzi took a job as the film critic for the Fresno Bee newspaper, eventually also becoming a humor columnist. In 1996 he was hired as the in-house writer and editor at America Online. When he was laid off in 1998, he decided to become a full-time freelance writer and author. His first published novel was Old Man's War. His other works include Agent to the Stars, The Ghosts Brigades, The Androids Team, The Sagan Diary, The Last Colony, and Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas. In 2014 his title, Locked In, made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Old Man's War … (more)

Series

The End of All Things

Whatever Collections

Uncle John's Presents: Book of the Dumb

The Dispatcher

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Works by John Scalzi

Old Man's War 7,565 copies, 373 reviews

Redshirts 4,078 copies, 383 reviews

The Ghost Brigades 4,024 copies, 148 reviews

The Last Colony 3,256 copies, 116 reviews

Lock In 2,516 copies, 176 reviews

Zoe's Tale 2,222 copies, 108 reviews

The Android's Dream 2,103 copies, 96 reviews

The Collapsing Empire 1,874 copies, 97 reviews

Fuzzy Nation 1,525 copies, 104 reviews

Agent to the Stars 1,494 copies, 84 reviews

The Human Division 1,232 copies, 59 reviews

The End of All Things 954 copies, 40 reviews

The Consuming Fire 859 copies, 56 reviews

Head On 826 copies, 44 reviews

The God Engines 734 copies, 52 reviews

The Sagan Diary 704 copies, 28 reviews

The Last Emperox 676 copies, 35 reviews

The Dispatcher 637 copies, 63 reviews

Metatropolis (Editor; Contributor) 514 copies, 28 reviews

Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome 391 copies, 35 reviews

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 351 copies, 18 reviews

The Kaiju Preservation Society 342 copies, 28 reviews

The Human Division #1: The B-Team 261 copies, 14 reviews

Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi 216 copies, 13 reviews

After the Coup 209 copies, 12 reviews

Questions for a Soldier 188 copies, 5 reviews

You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop:… 186 copies, 10 reviews

The Human Division #7: The Dog King 176 copies, 9 reviews

The Human Division #2: Walk the Plank 170 copies, 8 reviews

The Human Division #3: We Only Need the Heads 154 copies, 8 reviews

Judge Sn Goes Golfing 148 copies, 9 reviews

The Human Division #4: A Voice in the Wilderness 142 copies, 8 reviews

The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke 142 copies, 7 reviews

The Human Division #6: The Back Channel 139 copies, 7 reviews

The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies 1 (Rough Guide Reference) 138 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #8: The Sound of Rebellion 136 copies, 4 reviews

Murder by Other Means 131 copies, 12 reviews

The Mallet of Loving Correction 129 copies, 3 reviews

The Human Division #11: A Problem of Proportion 128 copies, 6 reviews

The Human Division #12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads 128 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #9: The Observers 127 copies, 8 reviews

The Human Division #10: This Must Be the Place 125 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #13: Earth Below, Sky Above 114 copies, 5 reviews

Uncle John's Presents: Book of the Dumb 101 copies, 2 reviews

The Tale of the Wicked 94 copies, 6 reviews

How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story 91 copies, 2 reviews

An Election 87 copies, 7 reviews

The Rough Guide to the Universe 83 copies

The President's Brain is Missing 75 copies, 7 reviews

Everything but the Squeal 60 copies, 2 reviews

Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last… 59 copies

Clash of the Geeks (Editor; Contributor) 51 copies, 6 reviews

A Very Scalzi Christmas 48 copies, 7 reviews

The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue 48 copies, 2 reviews

Don't Live For Your Obituary 46 copies, 2 reviews

The Life of the Mind 46 copies, 2 reviews

Uncle John's Presents: Book of the Dumb 2 43 copies, 1 review

Muse of Fire 41 copies, 1 review

This Hollow Union 39 copies, 2 reviews

To Stand or Fall 34 copies, 2 reviews

Can Long Endure 34 copies, 2 reviews

24 Frames into the Future: Scalzi on Science Fiction Films 31 copies

Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies 29 copies

Redshirts: Chapters 1-4 27 copies, 1 review

Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle 17 copies, 1 review

That Was the Millennium That Was 15 copies

Waiting for Athena 14 copies, 2 reviews

The Origin of the Flow 14 copies, 1 review

Subterranean Magazine, Issue #4 (Spring 2006) (Editor) 12 copies

The Secret History of the Last Colony 11 copies

Old Man's War Series: (Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The… 10 copies

The High Castle 9 copies

When the Yogurt Took Over 8 copies, 3 reviews

Alien Animal Encounters 7 copies

Sketches of Daily Life: Two Missives From Possible Futures 6 copies

Pluto Tells All 6 copies

Tordotcom: Chambers, Scalzi, Wagner 6 copies

Dave and Liz and Chicago Save the World: A Short Story 6 copies, 3 reviews

Denise Jones, Super Booker 5 copies

Missives from Possible Futures 1: Alternate History Search Results 4 copies

Regarding Your Application Status 4 copies

The Lock In Series: Lock In, Head On, Unlocked 4 copies

The Other Large Thing 4 copies

Interdependency Boxed Set (The Interdependency) 3 copies

Utere Nihil… [short story] 3 copies

The Rough Guide to Money Online (Rough Guide Internet/Computing) 3 copies

An Interview With the Nativity Innkeeper 3 copies

Old Man's War: John Scalzi, the Last Colony, Zoe's Tale, the… 3 copies

Extras 3 copies

The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time 2 copies

Jackie Jones and Melrose Mandy 2 copies

Království bohů. II, Princ Severu 2 copies

The Statue 2 copies

John Scalzi Collection 3 Books Set (The Collapsing Empire, The Consuming… 2 copies

Hafte Sorvalh Eats a Churro and Speaks to the Youth of Today [short story] 2 copies, 1 review

Old Man's War Universe: Short Stories 2 copies

To Sue the World (short story) 2 copies

The Kaiju Preservation Society Sneak Peek 2 copies

Automated Customer Service {short story} 2 copies, 2 reviews

Suburban Excursion 2 copies

Sarah's Sister 2 copies

Lock In (with bonus novella Unlocked) 1 copy

Zero Recall (The Legend of ZERO, Book 2) 1 copy

An Alternate “Life of the Mind” 1 copy

New Directive for Employee-Manxtse Interactions (short story) 1 copy

How I Keep Myself Ammused on Long Flights: A Twitter Tale (short story) 1 copy

The State of Super Villany (short story) 1 copy

Midnight rises 1 copy

Short Stories and Other Writings 1 copy

(Un) Lock In: The Lost Chapters 1 copy

How I Keep Myself Ammused on Long Flights, Part II: The Gremlining (short… 1 copy

Life on Earth: Human-Alien Relations (short story) 1 copy

Penelope (poem) 1 copy

John Scalzi Super eBook Bundle 1 copy

Cute Adorable Extortionists (short story) 1 copy

Important Holidays on Gronghu (short story) 1 copy

Your Smart Appliances Talk About You Behind Your Back (short story) 1 copy

The AI Are Absolutely Positively Without a Doubt Not Here to End Humanity,… 1 copy

An Interview With Santa’s Lawyer 1 copy, 1 review

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Also by John Scalzi

The Martian Chronicles (Introduction, some editions) 14,836 copies, 288 reviews

The Forever War (Foreword, some editions) 8,474 copies, 228 reviews

Always Coming Home (Introduction, some editions) 1,875 copies, 19 reviews

The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Science Fiction Adventure (Contributor) 294 copies, 11 reviews

Robots vs. Fairies (Contributor) 187 copies, 7 reviews

Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Contributor) 161 copies, 5 reviews

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (Contributor) 133 copies, 2 reviews

The Best of R. A. Lafferty (Contributor) 107 copies, 3 reviews

The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition (Foreword) 88 copies, 3 reviews

Black Tide Rising (Contributor, some editions) 81 copies, 3 reviews

The Best of Subterranean (Contributor) 62 copies, 5 reviews

Scenting the Dark and Other Stories (Introduction) 61 copies, 3 reviews

The Art of John Harris (Foreword) 59 copies

Rip-Off! (Contributor) 53 copies, 3 reviews

Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review

Mash Up (Contributor) 47 copies, 2 reviews

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology (Contributor) 40 copies, 2 reviews

A Better Way to Die (Introduction, some editions) 28 copies, 7 reviews

The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (Contributor) 28 copies

First-Person Singularities: Stories (Introduction) 18 copies, 2 reviews

John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular:… (Narrator, some editions) 13 copies, 5 reviews

Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 (Contributor) 8 copies, 2 reviews

The Paulandstormonomicon (Contributor) 2 copies

Subterranean Magazine Summer 2008 (Contributor) 1 copy

MidAmeriCon II Souvenir Book (Contributor) 1 copy

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Aug

Reading: John Scalzi

Worldcon 2019 - Dublin 2019, Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 12pm

Reading: John Scalzi (g33kgrrl)

Aug

John Scalzi's Saturday Dance Night - Across The Decades

Worldcon 2019 - Dublin 2019, Saturday, August 17, 2019 at 10pm

With John Scalzi (g33kgrrl)

Aug

GoH talk: a fireside chat with Diane Duane

Worldcon 2019 - Dublin 2019, Saturday, August 17, 2019 at 3pm

Diane Duane in conversation with John Scalzi. (g33kgrrl)

Aug

Autographs: John Scalzi

Worldcon 2019 - Dublin 2019, Friday, August 16, 2019 at 12:30pm

Autographs: John Scalzi (g33kgrrl)

Aug

Kaffeeklatsch: John Scalzi

Worldcon 2019 - Dublin 2019, Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 2pm

John Scalzi

https://eu.grenadine.co/sites/dublin2019programme/en/dublin-2019/schedule/8550/K... (g33kgrrl)

Oct

2018 WV Book Festival

West Virginia Book Festival, Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 7:30pm

The 2018 West Virginia Book Festival will feature authors such as Debbie Macomber, David Grann, Dennis Lehane, John Scalzi, Kwame Alexander, Jill Lepore and more. In addition to author presentation and signings, there will be workshops and the annual Kanawha County Public Library used book sale.

The festival will occur from Thursday, October 25th through Saturday, October 27th. All events on Friday and Saturday will occur at the Charleston Civic Center, Charleston West Virginia.

Thursday's event with author Jill Lepore is the annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. This event will take place at Riggleman Hall at the University of Charleston and is sponsored by the West Virginia Humanities Council. (BookDivasReads)… (more)

Aug

John ScalziThe End of All Things

Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Crocker Park, Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 2pm

The End of All Things by John Scalzi

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Aug

John Scalzi

Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Lexington, Friday, August 14, 2015 at 7pm

The End of All Things (archaism)

Oct

John Scalzi ~ Lock In ~ Seminary Co-op Bookstore

Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 6pm

Tuesday, October 21st, 6 PM Seminary Co-op Bookstore 5751 S. Woodlawn Avenue Phone: 773.752.4381 events@semcoop.com

Lock In takes place twenty-five years after a highly contagious virus swept across the globe, leaving more than five million people “locked in:” fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. When a murder involving one of the locked in takes place, it’s up to FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann to navigate from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture.

John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut Old Man’s War won him science fiction’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, and Redshirts; which won 2013’s Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com) has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

Location: Street: Seminary Co-op Bookstore Additional: 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60637 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Sep

Lock In

WORD, Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 7pm

Meet John Scalzi as he reads from his new science fiction novel Lock In. (added from Macmillan)

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Canonical name

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Other names

Date of birth

1969-05-10

Date of death

Burial location

Gender

male

Nationality

USA

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Fairfield, California, USA

Place of death

Cause of death

Places of residence

Covina, California, USA

Glendora, California, USA

Claremont, California, USA

Fresno, California, USA

Bradford, Ohio, USA

Education

University of Chicago (1991)

Occupations

film critic

humor columnist

In-house writer/editor (America Online)

Professional blogger (America Online)

business consultant

Relationships

Booth, John Wilkes (distantly related)

Organizations

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)

Fresno Bee

America Online

Awards and honors

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (2006)

Hugo Nominee (Fan Writer ∙ 2007)

Hugo (Fan Writer ∙ 2008)

Hugo (Novel ∙ 2013)

Agents

Ellenberg, Ethan

Lewis, Bibi

Gotler, Joel (film/TV)

Short biography

John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, where he has written on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several charity drives. His novel Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, writing and politics, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe.

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