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Redshirts as a Social Justice Cabal Hugo Pick

Posted on April 29, 2015 192 Comments

Posting this Twitter rant here for posterity. This is Hugo neepery, but not of the usual sort I’ve been neeping about recently. Multitweet comment coming. Be ready. — John Scalzi (@scalzi) April 29, 2015 1. It's been recently suggested that I should be ashamed for getting the Hugo for Redshirts (by an author who hasn't […]

Pizza and Particles: An Observation on Writing

Posted on February 7, 2016 59 Comments

Note: This entry includes spoilers for my book Redshirts, so if you haven’t read it and want some elements to be a surprise, go ahead and stop reading now. As you can see from the above embedded tweet and picture, a reader (who also appears to be a NASA scientist) asked me a question about […]

Today’s Reading is From the Book of Redshirts

Posted on March 3, 2015 14 Comments

This is cool: Redshirts being used as part of a church sermon (specifically at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Madison, Wisconsin). It is, logically enough, being used a bit like a parable (or at least a framing device) to help discuss a larger and more complicated theological idea. I like it when my work finds […]

How to Get Signed and Personalized Scalzi Books for the Holidays, 2015

Posted on November 9, 2015 5 Comments

It’s that time of the year again, and once again I am teaming up with Jay & Mary’s Book Center, my local independent bookseller, to offer signed and personalized books for gift-giving. It’s a great way to get a unique gift for someone you love (even yourself!) while at the same time supporting a great […]

Very Important News About My 2016 Novel Release (and Other Fiction Plans)

Posted on December 28, 2015 79 Comments

So, here’s the Very Important News about my 2016 novel release: Currently, there isn’t one. Not a new one, anyway. Which isn’t to say I’m not writing a novel in 2016. In fact, I’m writing two(!). Merely that Tor has decided to wait until 2017 to release the next new one. Why the wait? Among […]

The End of All Things on the USA Today Bestseller List

Posted on August 24, 2015 18 Comments

Something I missed when it happened last week, because, you know, on tour and all that: The End of All Things debuted on the USA Today Bestseller list at #31, which is the highest a book of mine has ever gotten on the USA Today list. As comparisons, Lock In clocked in at #107, and […]

Reader Request Week #3: How, and If, I Will Be Remembered

Posted on March 22, 2016 28 Comments

Steve asks: Have you ever wondered how you will be remembered by the “science fiction community”? How future critics will use you in comparison to future authors……about the legacy you have left behind you when you have gone……if you will be lost among the hundreds of authors, as many from the 50’s have been…..? No […]

The State of a Genre Title, 2015

Posted on August 10, 2015 97 Comments

Eighteen months ago, as Redshirts moved from its hardcover era into trade paperback, I did an examination of its sales to the point, across all its formats, and chatted about what its sales meant, or didn’t mean, and what we could learn from the numbers. Last week, Lock In, my most recent novel (until tomorrow), […]

Reader Request Week 2016 #9: Short Bits on Writing

Posted on March 26, 2016 14 Comments

This is the part of Reader Request Week where I quickly blast through a bunch of questions on writing. Ready? Strap in. Marc Criley: If you had J.K. Rowlings’ money in the bank, so complete freedom to write whatever and however you wanted, would go off in new writing directions? Experiment with topics and styles? Well, […]

How Many Books You Should Write In a Year

Posted on September 17, 2015 54 Comments

Folks have pointed me toward this Huffington Post piece, begging self-published authors not to write four books a year, because the author (Lorraine Devon Wilke) maintains that no mere human can write four books a year and have them be any good. This has apparently earned her the wrath of a number of people, including writer Larry […]

Redshirts in Korean and Polish

Posted on October 4, 2014 43 Comments

And they are two very different takes on the same book, I would say. Of the Polish one, I’m mildly curious as to how Adam Baldwin got on the cover, not to mention the young lady with the chest plate tattoo; neither of them really seem to be in uniform. I will say that the […]

35 Years of Tor

Posted on October 5, 2015 18 Comments

Tor.com is unveiling Tor’s new logo today — it looks like the old logo, only, you know, more modern — and offering a timeline of highlights from Tor’s now 35-year-long history. I’m delighted to say I show up on the timeline twice, first in 2005, when it’s noted that I and Brandon Sanderson debuted in […]

Today’s Thing I’ve Never Seen Before

Posted on February 13, 2015 21 Comments

It’s a large print edition of Redshirts, in a library binding and everything. I’m not 100% sure but I suspect this is the first book of mine in large print (the Hugo award may have helped it get into the format). At the very least it’s the first book of mine that I’ve seen in […]

Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle Available for a Limited Time

Posted on February 10, 2015 39 Comments

A couple of years ago, Subterranean Press released a “super bundle” of short stories and non-fiction books from me, perfect for completists who want to get lots of stuff of mine for a nice, low price. SubPress has revived the super bundle for a limited time with three new works in it: “To Sue The […]

Agent to the Stars, Ten Years On

Posted on July 22, 2015 66 Comments

Here’s a fun fact: This week marks the 10th anniversary of the print release of Agent to the Stars. It was released in a limited edition hardcover from Subterranean Press, which makes it to date, and likely for the next decade at least, the only novel of mine released first by a publisher other than Tor […]

My Own 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 35 Comments

Well, you know. It was all right. Career-related highlights: Lock In came out and hit the NYT and other hardcover bestseller lists, which was nice. It also sold very well in other formats, including audio, where (or so I was informed) it’s become Audible’s number one pre-ordered audiobook ever, no doubt helped by the dual narrations from […]

How to Get Signed and Personalized Scalzi Books for the Holidays, 2014

Posted on November 10, 2014 6 Comments

Once again the holiday season is approaching, and once again I am teaming up with Jay & Mary’s Book Center, my local independent bookseller, to offer signed and personalized books for gift-giving. It’s a great way to get a unique gift for someone you love (even yourself!) while at the same time supporting a great […]

Two Tales In Translation

Posted on September 12, 2014

First, the Polish version of my short story “The Tale of the Wicked,” in Polish SF/F magazine Nowa Fantastyka. I’m always tickled when short fiction of mine gets translated into other languages. Second, the cover of Redshirts in its Italian edition: Kind of funky looking, I have to say, but I like how Peter Lutjen’s […]

And Now, Because It Might Be Useful to Everyone, Including Me, a Quick Reality Check

Posted on September 16, 2014 45 Comments

And here it is: Yes, I have three TV shows in development at the moment, which is very cool and wonderful for me and which means I’m having a totally giggly moment over here. BUT: Hey, remember that there was supposed to be an Old Man’s War movie? That was optioned for five years and […]

More on the Redshirts TV Series

Posted on February 8, 2014 45 Comments

I realize that yesterday’s announcement of the Redshirts TV series was a little light on the details on my end — I was literally about to walk out the door for the day when I saw it — so for those of you who were craving additional detail, here you are, in a handy Q […]

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