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John Scalzi
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
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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)
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2005
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111 editions
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Redshirts
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2012
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2 editions
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Starter Villain
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2023
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2 editions
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
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2006
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8 editions
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
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2007
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67 editions
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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2022
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41 editions
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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2014
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2 editions
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The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
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2017
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42 editions
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The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)
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2018
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3 editions
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The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)
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2013
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6 editions
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New Front Porch Furniture and a Scalzi Compound Outdoor Area Overview
Hey wanna see our new front porch furniture?
As you’ll know, we recently redid a lot of our outdoor environs here at the Scalzi Compound — the front porch because a wind storm knocked out a substantial part of the railing, which meant redoing it, and as long as we were doing that, redoing the back deck, adding an additional seating area attached to the second garage we also built, and then gett
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The Shattering Peace (Old Man's War, #7)
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"This is one of those books that should absolutely not work. It does. I laughed in an airport lounge loudly enough that people turned to look at me. I also cried MORE THAN ONCE over a book about a MOON MADE OF CHEESE. Fuck you, John Scalzi. How dare."
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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.”
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“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)]”
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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)]”
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“If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.”
― Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
― Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
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Thanks for becoming my Goodreads friend.You are a huge influence.Eric
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 :)
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