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 (Author) 8,116 copies, 390 reviews

Redshirts 4,462 copies, 403 reviews

The Ghost Brigades 4,318 copies, 155 reviews

The Last Colony 3,516 copies, 122 reviews

Lock In 2,783 copies, 190 reviews

Zoe's Tale 2,405 copies, 111 reviews

The Android's Dream 2,221 copies, 99 reviews

The Collapsing Empire 2,177 copies, 108 reviews

Fuzzy Nation 1,642 copies, 111 reviews

Agent to the Stars 1,600 copies, 93 reviews

The Human Division 1,402 copies, 61 reviews

The End of All Things 1,124 copies, 41 reviews

The Consuming Fire 1,069 copies, 63 reviews

The Kaiju Preservation Society 988 copies, 71 reviews

Head On 954 copies, 48 reviews

The Last Emperox 876 copies, 43 reviews

The God Engines 771 copies, 52 reviews

The Sagan Diary 744 copies, 29 reviews

The Dispatcher 744 copies, 70 reviews

Metatropolis (Editor; Contributor) 547 copies, 28 reviews

Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome 455 copies, 40 reviews

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 363 copies, 18 reviews

The Human Division #1: The B-Team 291 copies, 16 reviews

Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi 243 copies, 15 reviews

After the Coup 231 copies, 14 reviews

Questions for a Soldier 207 copies, 5 reviews

Murder by Other Means 194 copies, 17 reviews

The Human Division #7: The Dog King 191 copies, 9 reviews

The Human Division #2: Walk the Plank 186 copies, 10 reviews

You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop:… 186 copies, 11 reviews

The Human Division #3: We Only Need the Heads 169 copies, 8 reviews

The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke 158 copies, 9 reviews

The Human Division #4: A Voice in the Wilderness 157 copies, 8 reviews

Judge Sn Goes Golfing 156 copies, 9 reviews

The Human Division #6: The Back Channel 154 copies, 7 reviews

The Human Division #8: The Sound of Rebellion 150 copies, 4 reviews

The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies 1 (Rough Guide Reference) 143 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #9: The Observers 141 copies, 8 reviews

The Human Division #12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads 140 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #10: This Must Be the Place 138 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #11: A Problem of Proportion 137 copies, 6 reviews

The Mallet of Loving Correction 135 copies, 4 reviews

The Human Division #13: Earth Below, Sky Above 127 copies, 5 reviews

Uncle John's Presents: Book of the Dumb 103 copies, 2 reviews

The Tale of the Wicked 102 copies, 6 reviews

How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story 94 copies, 2 reviews

An Election 93 copies, 8 reviews

Travel by Bullet 90 copies, 7 reviews

The Rough Guide to the Universe 89 copies

The President's Brain is Missing 85 copies, 9 reviews

Everything but the Squeal 66 copies, 1 review

Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last… 65 copies

A Very Scalzi Christmas 59 copies, 7 reviews

The Life of the Mind 53 copies, 2 reviews

Clash of the Geeks (Editor; Contributor) 53 copies, 6 reviews

The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue 52 copies, 2 reviews

Don't Live For Your Obituary 49 copies, 2 reviews

Uncle John's Presents: Book of the Dumb 2 45 copies, 1 review

Muse of Fire 43 copies, 1 review

This Hollow Union 43 copies, 2 reviews

To Stand or Fall 39 copies, 2 reviews

Can Long Endure 39 copies, 2 reviews

24 Frames into the Future: Scalzi on Science Fiction Films 32 copies

Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies 32 copies, 1 review

Redshirts: Chapters 1-4 31 copies, 1 review

Starter Villain 23 copies

Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle 20 copies, 1 review

The Origin of the Flow 18 copies, 1 review

That Was the Millennium That Was 16 copies

Waiting for Athena 14 copies, 2 reviews

Old Man's War Series: (Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The… 12 copies

Subterranean Magazine, Issue #4 (Spring 2006) (Editor) 12 copies, 1 review

The Secret History of the Last Colony 11 copies

The High Castle 10 copies

Tordotcom: Chambers, Scalzi, Wagner 9 copies

When the Yogurt Took Over 9 copies, 3 reviews

Alien Animal Encounters 7 copies

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

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

The Lock In Series: Lock In, Head On, Unlocked 6 copies

Regarding Your Application Status 6 copies

Pluto Tells All 6 copies

Denise Jones, Super Booker 5 copies

Utere Nihil… [short story] 4 copies

The Other Large Thing 4 copies

The Kaiju Preservation Society Sneak Peek 4 copies

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

Automated Customer Service {short story} 3 copies, 2 reviews

Extras 3 copies

Interdependency Boxed Set (The Interdependency) 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

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

The Statue 2 copies

To Sue the World (short story) 2 copies

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

Jackie Jones and Melrose Mandy 2 copies

Brigazile fantoma - Vol 2 Seria razboiul batranilor (Romanian Edition) 2 copies

Suburban Excursion 2 copies

The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time 2 copies

La société protectrice des Kaijus 2 copies

Old Man's War Universe: Short Stories 2 copies

Sarah's Sister 2 copies

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

Imparatorlugun Cöküsü 1 copy

8 Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Your Favorite Holiday… 1 copy

John Scalzi Super eBook Bundle 1 copy

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

The Collapsing Empire - The Interdependency, Book 1 1 copy

Midnight rises 1 copy

Important Holidays on Gronghu (short story) 1 copy

Cute Adorable Extortionists (short story) 1 copy

Penelope (poem) 1 copy

A model Dog 1 copy

(Un) Lock In: The Lost Chapters 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

Short Stories and Other Writings 1 copy

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

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

Lock In (with bonus novella Unlocked) 1 copy

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

The State of Super Villany (short story) 1 copy

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

An Alternate “Life of the Mind” 1 copy

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Also by John Scalzi

The Martian Chronicles (Introduction, some editions) 15,754 copies, 304 reviews

The Forever War (Foreword, some editions) 8,972 copies, 239 reviews

Always Coming Home (Introduction, some editions) 1,971 copies, 20 reviews

The New Space Opera 2: All-New Stories of Science Fiction Adventure (Contributor) 310 copies, 10 reviews

Robots vs. Fairies (Contributor) 211 copies, 7 reviews

Twenty-First Century Science Fiction (Contributor) 174 copies, 5 reviews

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition (Contributor) 148 copies, 2 reviews

The Best of R. A. Lafferty (Contributor) 137 copies, 3 reviews

The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade: The 11 1/2 Anniversary Edition (Foreword) 94 copies, 3 reviews

Black Tide Rising (Contributor, some editions) 87 copies, 4 reviews

The Art of John Harris (Foreword) 73 copies

The Best of Subterranean (Contributor) 64 copies, 6 reviews

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

Rip-Off! (Contributor) 60 copies, 3 reviews

Mash Up (Contributor) 58 copies, 2 reviews

Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against (Contributor) 54 copies, 1 review

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology (Contributor) 53 copies, 2 reviews

The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (Contributor) 34 copies

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

First-Person Singularities: Stories (Introduction) 19 copies, 2 reviews

Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology, Volume 1 (Contributor) 17 copies

John Scalzi Is Not A Very Popular Author And I Myself Am Quite Popular:… (Narrator, some editions) 15 copies, 5 reviews

Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 (Contributor) 10 copies, 2 reviews

Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology, Volume 2+3 (Contributor) 6 copies

The Paulandstormonomicon (Contributor) 2 copies

Subterranean Magazine Summer 2008 (Contributor) 1 copy

MidAmeriCon II Souvenir Book (Contributor) 1 copy

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Canonical name

Legal name

Scalzi, John Michael, II

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 (BA | 1991)

Occupations

film critic

humor columnist

In-house writer/editor (America Online)

Professional blogger (America Online)

business consultant

Relationships

Booth, John Wilkes (distantly related)

Blauser, Kristine Ann (wife)

Agents

Ellenberg, Ethan

Lewis, Bibi

Gotler, Joel (film/TV)

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)

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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