John Michael Scalzi II
born Fairfield, California: 10 May 1969
John Scalzi is an American author of science fiction novels, non-fiction books and a journalist. He is also known for his popular blog, Whatever.
Scalzi's first novel, Agent to the Stars, was written in 1997 and published free to read on his website in 1999 where, unusual at the time, he asked for donations if readers enjoyed it. While it is essentially a First Contact story, it concerns a Hollywood agent hired to make an alien species more appealing to humans.
He is still best known for his Old Man's War series or Green Soldier Universe, beginning with Old Man's War (2005). These are military science fiction concerning a 75-year-old man recruited to fight in a Centuries old war, and of the special forces units involved. It is often compared to Robert A Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
He is also known for his Interdependency trilogy, beginning with The Collapsing Empire (2017), a space opera set in an empire of 48-star systems connected by the Flow.
Other notable works are Lock-In (2014) and Head On (2018), science fiction police procedurals concerning a paralysing disease in which the victims use robotic bodies called Threeps; Fuzzy Nation (2011, a re-working of H. Beam Piper’s, Little Fuzzy; and Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (2012), concerning the unnamed, low-ranking characters of Star Trek who always died on away missions.
He doesn’t write many short stories, but three were adapted for episodes of the first season of the Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots in 2019.
The Kaiju Preservation Society (2022) concerns man who takes a job with an animal rights organisation to protect Godzilla-like monsters from another dimension.
Starter Villain (2023) is a comedy about a man who inherits the family business of being a kind of James Bond style international villain.
Scalzi's books are known for their humour and their straightforward style.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: John Scalzi
Wikipedia page: John Scalzi - Wikipedia
born Fairfield, California: 10 May 1969
John Scalzi is an American author of science fiction novels, non-fiction books and a journalist. He is also known for his popular blog, Whatever.
Scalzi's first novel, Agent to the Stars, was written in 1997 and published free to read on his website in 1999 where, unusual at the time, he asked for donations if readers enjoyed it. While it is essentially a First Contact story, it concerns a Hollywood agent hired to make an alien species more appealing to humans.
He is still best known for his Old Man's War series or Green Soldier Universe, beginning with Old Man's War (2005). These are military science fiction concerning a 75-year-old man recruited to fight in a Centuries old war, and of the special forces units involved. It is often compared to Robert A Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.
He is also known for his Interdependency trilogy, beginning with The Collapsing Empire (2017), a space opera set in an empire of 48-star systems connected by the Flow.
Other notable works are Lock-In (2014) and Head On (2018), science fiction police procedurals concerning a paralysing disease in which the victims use robotic bodies called Threeps; Fuzzy Nation (2011, a re-working of H. Beam Piper’s, Little Fuzzy; and Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas (2012), concerning the unnamed, low-ranking characters of Star Trek who always died on away missions.
He doesn’t write many short stories, but three were adapted for episodes of the first season of the Netflix anthology series Love, Death & Robots in 2019.
The Kaiju Preservation Society (2022) concerns man who takes a job with an animal rights organisation to protect Godzilla-like monsters from another dimension.
Starter Villain (2023) is a comedy about a man who inherits the family business of being a kind of James Bond style international villain.
Scalzi's books are known for their humour and their straightforward style.
A list of his works is to be found here: Summary Bibliography: John Scalzi
Wikipedia page: John Scalzi - Wikipedia
