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John Scalzi
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
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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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107 editions
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Redshirts
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2012
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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
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2006
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73 editions
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Starter Villain
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2023
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24 editions
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The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)
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2007
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66 editions
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Lock In (Lock In, #1)
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2014
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44 editions
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
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2022
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38 editions
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The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
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2017
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The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency, #2)
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2018
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33 editions
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The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)
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2013
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46 editions
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The Big Idea: Gary Jackson
Move over, Shakespeare in the Park, today we’ve got poet Gary Jackson and the Big Idea for his newest collection of poetry. Follow along to see how small lives speaks to the reader in an unprecedented way.
GARY JACKSON:
It’s no secret that I love persona poems. When I teach my intro to poetry students about voice and speaker, I routinely ask: Who is talking to whom about what? I pose the que
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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.”
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Fantasy Book Club:
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| SciFi and Fantasy...: What I am also reading in April | 40 | 401 | Jun 30, 2009 07:43PM |
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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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