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The Offer on Old Man’s War: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Posted on December 30, 2012 120 Comments
Today is a notable day in my personal history: Ten years ago today, I sold Old Man’s War to Tor Books. People who have been following me for any amount of time know how this happened, but might not know the full story, and the newer folks might not know about it at all. So […]
10 Non-SF/F Books That Meant the Most to Me (as a Writer)
Posted on January 12, 2014 52 Comments
A few months back I wrote about The 10 SF/F Books That Meant the Most to Me in the days before I was a published science fiction author. It’s worth noting, however, that I didn’t only read science fiction and fantasy growing up, nor were the writers and books I admired — and which I think […]
Lessons From Heinlein
Posted on April 5, 2003 4 Comments
I was re-reading the postscript I had on Old Man’s War just before I sold it, and which I subsequently removed from the Web site. I think it’s interesting enough as a discussion of the mechanics of writing that I’ll go ahead and repost it here. Astute observers will note that I wrote it before […]
Kibbles and Bits
Posted on May 25, 2005 12 Comments
Couple of things: * Justine Larbalestier has caved and has now started a blog to complement her longer-form musings. One of us! One of us! Her first entry features her ginchy cover art for her upcoming book. Swing by and say “hi” to her. * SFSignal has an interesting bit on the criteria the proprietor […]
PW Review of The Ghost Brigades
Posted on January 23, 2006 15 Comments
Oh, look. The Publishers Weekly review of The Ghost Brigades is in and it’s not bad at all. The opening line: “This fast-paced interstellar military drama doesn’t quite meet the high expectations set by its predecessor, Scalzi’s acclaimed Old Man’s War (2005), but it comes impressively close.” That works just dandy for me. You can […]
Shaming the Poor
Posted on March 2, 2008 174 Comments
One of the things that I’ve come to expect whenever I write about poverty here in the US is that there will inevitably be people in the comment threads who are under the impression that the best thing to do with the poor, if we must be obliged not to let them starve, is to […]
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