Sep 30 2007

About

Published by John Scalzi

This is the online home of writer John Scalzi. He does tend to blather.

My life, distilled.

Books I have written, via my Amazon author page.

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16 responses so far

16 Responses to “About”

  1. # Itiswhatitison 01 Oct 2007 at 8:04 am

    Good Morning. Just found your book on the table of my spouse’s things. I took a browse over the dust jacket. Just dropped in to see what this is. And this is great!

  2. # John Scalzion 01 Oct 2007 at 8:37 am

    Glad you like it!

  3. # Heatheon 01 Oct 2007 at 9:09 am

    Hey, just wanted to remind you that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Tell Krissy to wear her pink ribbon.

    Love ya Brother

  4. # Moiraon 05 Oct 2007 at 8:46 am

    Hello John,
    Greetings from Busselton in Western Australia.
    I’ve just discovered a couple of your books in the local library – LOVED The Android’s Dream and have just galloped through Old Man’s War – brilliant idea! I’m going looking for more of your books in the state library catalogue. And oh yes, I’ll recommend you to my friends. Keep writing, please!

  5. # joelfinkleon 09 Oct 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Pardon me, but what’s the new feed URL? My feedreader hasn’t seen anything since the 1st. (using scaliz.com/whatever/atom.xml)

  6. # Erikaon 16 Oct 2007 at 4:52 pm

    Just wanted to let you know that I just realized I hadn’t had any Whatever updates recently in Bloglines. I was subscribed to the http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/atom.xml feed. I switched to the http://scalzi.com/whatever/?feed=rss2 and lo, there were posts!

    There are 656 Bloglines users subscribed to atom.xml but only 36 subscribed to rss2. You might want to manually edit your atom.xml file and add a mock post asking people to switch to the rss2 feed instead (or I guess fix the atom.xml feed).

  7. # Richard Leach-Steffenson 19 Oct 2007 at 9:06 pm

    John,

    Being a former library person (MLS but not in the field), I thought you would get a kick out of this librarian-themed online comic strip, Unshelved. Imagine my surprise when, browsing the strips, I found one that features Agent to the Stars:

    http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060716

  8. # Bobon 13 Nov 2007 at 6:36 pm

    I read most of your intro about the “Creation Museum”… the horseshit references… a bit too intolerant for me. Do you also have the balls to attack other non-passive religions / beliefs (e.g., Islam) with equal fervor, or does your hunting license limit you to only bagging Christians?

  9. # John Scalzion 13 Nov 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Well, Bob, be sure to check out my Site Disclaimer for my complete and absolute lack of concern about whether you find me intolerant; that said, sure, I’m happy to take a whack at Islamic nutbags from time to time as well. However, in this particular case, you seem to be conflating “Christian” and “creationist,” which is pretty damn sloppy, if you ask me. I don’t make the same mistake.

  10. # Mikalon 21 Nov 2007 at 2:24 pm

    Quoting: “A good rule of thumb is to comment as if the person to whom you are commenting is standing in front of you, is built like a linebacker, and has both a short temper and excellent legal representation”

    Comment: “Love your site, points of view, and style.” [Extending my arm for either a Handshake or Hug, whichever is most acceptable the least threatening, both physically and legally.]

  11. # Mark Primaveraon 02 Jan 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Thanks for wrtting an amazing book. I can only listen to them from Audible (no time to read) and wish your other books where there also. If you keep it up I’m sure Mr. Card will be trying to get you bumped off. Does the guy in OMW ever catch up to his dead/live wife after the 10 years is over? If not can you email me a short line saything they lived happily ever after?

  12. # John Scalzion 02 Jan 2008 at 9:58 pm

    Mark:

    You’ll want to read “The Last Colony,” or wait for it to come out in audio.

  13. # Mark Primaveraon 05 Jan 2008 at 9:18 am

    Would you know the ETA on the audio? If not no worries, if TLC is as good as OMW it will be well worth the wait.

    I asked my boss if it would be ok if I could read while I drive (UPS driver) and he said no.

  14. # John Scalzion 05 Jan 2008 at 9:21 am

    I would have to agree with your boss there.

    No date on the audio for Last Colony, but if I had to guess, I’d say later in the year. The audio for The Ghost Brigades, which immediately follows Old Man’s War (but doesn’t have John Perry in it), will be out in a couple of months.

  15. # Mark Primaveraon 05 Jan 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Well keep up the great work, I look forward to hearing all of them. So tough to find an SF writer that can keep me interested. And as a side note, its really cool that you answer your fans in this way.

    As soon as Audible gets em I’ll buy em!!

    Are you ever going to do a book signing in NY?

  16. # John Scalzion 10 Feb 2008 at 10:24 pm

    This page is getting a lot of spam all of a sudden, so I’m going to turn off comments for a while.