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Let It Not Be Said That I Am Not Actively Fulfilling My Obligations
Posted on September 22, 2011 64 Comments
For the ukulele performance, Redshirts auction winner Brad Roberts said that any tune I favored will do. Well, this particular tune is pretty easy (four chords! Over and over!) and I know it reasonably well. So there it is. And before anyone asks, yes, if I do make to 4th Street Fantasy as planned next […]
Various & Sundry 9/23/11
Posted on September 23, 2011 43 Comments
What’s up? Well: * For those folks still interested in the follow-up to the Redshirts auction will be happy to know that I met with the library folks today and they are very happy about everything that’s happened, and that they are making plans on how to put that money to its best use for […]
Tribble’s Tribbles
Posted on October 22, 2011 14 Comments
This is Conrad Tribble, the US Consul General in Munich, and yes, those are tribbles that he is holding and/or wearing, proving that he has a good sense of humor about his name. Consul General Tribble and his wife Christina were gracious enough to hold a brunch today in my honor, which was attended by […]
Station Identification: Whatever
Posted on January 1, 2012 1 Comment
Introduction You are now visiting “Whatever.” It is a site written by John Scalzi with occasional contributions from Athena Scalzi. It has been in existence since 1998. It is as a consequence one of the longest-running personal sites on the Web. It is generally updated daily. It is about whatever the two of them feel […]
This is What a Nice Guy I Am
Posted on September 9, 2011 54 Comments
I was going to mention the fact that I printed up some personal galleys of Redshirts, to give to my wife and in-laws and maybe might have an extra copy that I will at some point in the reasonably near future auction off for charity, although not yet because I have to figure out which […]
One Additional Library Thought
Posted on September 21, 2011 20 Comments
I’ve had a couple of people e-mail me to say that although the Redshirts library auction is over, they’re still interested in donating a little money to my library, and wanted to know how to do it. The answer is just to write a check to “Bradford Public Library” and send it to the address […]
SFContario Appearance Schedule for This Weekend
Posted on November 14, 2011 11 Comments
Starting Thursday I will be in Toronto — one of North America’s very finest cities! — as the International Guest of Honor for SFContario 2, joining the estimable Karl Schroeder, Gardner Dozois and musical guests Toyboat, who are also guests of honor. If you are going, or were thinking of going but were wondering what […]
“Questions for a Soldier” in Subterranean Magazine #8
Posted on September 15, 2011 21 Comments
For a number of years now, the only way you could get “Questions for a Soldier,” the first short story I wrote set in the Old Man’s War universe — and which features John Perry making an early appearance on the colony of Huckleberry — was to get the increasingly rare chapbook version, which is […]
The Thanksgiving Advent Calendar, Day Five: Competent People
Posted on November 5, 2011 29 Comments
There are lots of different ways you can tell you’ve officially become a grown up. One of them for me was recognizing that not only didn’t I have the bandwidth, either time- or intelligence-wise, to do every single thing out there in the world, I didn’t have the desire, either. This was actually a thing […]
Books and Other Projects by John Scalzi
Posted on November 16, 2009
You may have heard: I write books. Here’s what I’ve published. The Old Man’s War Novels This series of books is what I’m currently best known for. Old Man’s War (2005) The Ghost Brigades (2006) The Last Colony (2007) Zoe’s Tale (2008) The Human Division (2013) The End of All Things (2015) Old Man’s War, […]
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