About
John Scalzi
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author. Scalzi started writing as a hobby in the late 1990s while working as a corporate marketing manager. His first novel, "Old Man's War" (2005), won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Since then, he has published numerous novels, including the Hugo Award-winning "Redshirts" (2012) and "The Collapsing Empire" (2017). His books have been translated into over 30 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Critical acclaim has lauded Scalzi's witty and thought-provoking writing, earning him the Robert A. Heinlein Award (2010) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2013). He is also known for his popular blog, "Whatever," where he provides commentary on current events, pop culture, and writing.
Book Series by John Scalzi
Old Man's War Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Old Man's War | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Ghost Brigades | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Last Colony | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| Zoe's Tale | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Human Division | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The End of All Things | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
Old Man's War Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Questions for a Soldier (Short Story) | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Sagan Diary (Short Story) | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| After the Coup (Short Story) | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
The Dispatcher Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Dispatcher (Short Story) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Murder By Other Means | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Travel by Bullet | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
End of All Things Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Life of the Mind | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| This Hollow Union | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Can Long Endure | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| To Stand or Fall | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
The Interdependency Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Collapsing Empire | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Consuming Fire | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Last Emperox | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
Human Division Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The B-Team | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Walk the Plank | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| We Only Need the Heads | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Voice in the Wilderness | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Tales From the Clarke (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Back Channel (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Dog King (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Sound of Rebellion (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Observers | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| This Must Be the Place (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Problem of Proportion (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Earth Below, Sky Above (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
Lock In Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Lock In | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Head On | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
Shadow War Of The Night Dragons Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Dead City (Short Story) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
The Android's Dream Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| The Android's Dream | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| Judge Sn Goes Golfing (Short Story) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
Whatever Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Mallet of Loving Correction | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
John Scalzi Other Novels
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Agent to the Stars | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| The God Engines | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Dead City (Short Story) | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Redshirts | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Very Scalzi Christmas (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Kaiju Preservation Society | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
| Starter Villain | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| When the Moon Hits Your Eye | 2025 | Buy on Amazon |
John Scalzi Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story (Short Story) | 2006 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Tale of the Wicked (Short Story) | 2009 | Buy on Amazon |
| The President's Brain is Missing (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| When the Yogurt Took Over | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| An Election (Short Story) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Muse of Fire (Short Story) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Everything but the Squeal (Short Story) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Automated Customer Service (Short Story) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Constituent Service (Short Story) | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
John Scalzi Short Story Collections
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Miniatures | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
John Scalzi Non-Fiction Books
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing
2007
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Rough Guide to Money Online | 2000 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Rough Guide to the Universe | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents: The Book of the Dumb | 2003 | Buy on Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 | 2004 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies | 2005 | Buy on Amazon |
| You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| 24 Frames into the Future | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| Don't Live For Your Obituary | 2017 | Buy on Amazon |
Black Tide Rising Series
Black Tide Rising ( With: John Ringo, Jody Lynn Nye, Sarah A. Hoyt, Eric Flint, Michael Z. Williamson, Eric S. Brown)
2016
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Under a Graveyard Sky ( By: John Ringo) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| To Sail a Darkling Sea ( By: John Ringo) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Islands of Rage & Hope ( By: John Ringo) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Strands of Sorrow ( By: John Ringo) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Black Tide Rising ( With: John Ringo, Jody Lynn Nye, Sarah A. Hoyt, Eric Flint, Michael Z. Williamson, Eric S. Brown) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Valley of Shadows ( By: John Ringo) | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Voices of the Fall ( By: John Ringo) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| River of Night ( By: John Ringo) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| At the End of the World ( By: Charles E. Gannon) | 2020 | Buy on Amazon |
| At the End of the Journey ( By: Charles E. Gannon) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| We Shall Rise ( By: John Ringo, Gary Poole) | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| United We Stand ( By: John Ringo, Gary Poole) | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
| Mountain of Fire ( By: Jason Cordova) | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
| Across an Ocean of Stars ( By: Robert E. Hampson) | 2025 | Buy on Amazon |
Fuzzy Sapiens Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Little Fuzzy ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1962 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Other Human Race ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1964 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuzzy Sapiens ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1964 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Fuzzy Papers ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1977 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuzzy Bones ( By: William Tuning) | 1981 | Buy on Amazon |
| Golden Dream ( By: Ardath Mayhar) | 1982 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Adventures of Little Fuzzy (Short Story) ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1983 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuzzies and Other People ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1984 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Complete Fuzzy ( By: H. Beam Piper) | 1998 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuzzy Nation | 2011 | Buy on Amazon |
| Caveat Fuzzy ( By: Wolfgang Diehr) | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Fuzzy Conundrum ( By: John F. Carr, Wolfgang Diehr) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuzzy Ergo Sum ( By: Wolfgang Diehr) | 2019 | Buy on Amazon |
| Fuzzy Logic ( By: Wolfgang Diehr) | 2022 | Buy on Amazon |
Far Reaches Collection Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Slow Time Between the Stars | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| How It Unfolds ( By: James S. A. Corey) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Long Game ( By: Ann Leckie) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| Void ( By: Veronica Roth) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| Falling Bodies (Short Story) ( By: Rebecca Roanhorse) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
| Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (Short Story) ( By: Nnedi Okorafor) | 2023 | Buy on Amazon |
METAtropolis Series
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| METAtropolis ( With: Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Karl Schroeder) | 2008 | Buy on Amazon |
| Cascadia ( By: Ken Scholes) | 2010 | Buy on Amazon |
| Green Space ( By: Jay Lake) | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves ( By: Ken Scholes) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Byways ( By: Tobias Buckell) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| The Wings We Dare Aspire ( By: Ken Scholes) | 2014 | Buy on Amazon |
| Stochasticity (Short Story) ( By: Tobias Buckell) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Tensegrity (Short Story) ( By: Tobias Buckell) | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
John Scalzi Anthologies
| Title | Published | Purchase |
|---|---|---|
| Space Opera | 2007 | Buy on Amazon |
| Rip-Off! | 2012 | Buy on Amazon |
| Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 | 2013 | Buy on Amazon |
| Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition | 2015 | Buy on Amazon |
| Black Tide Rising | 2016 | Buy on Amazon |
| Robots vs. Fairies | 2018 | Buy on Amazon |
| Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One | 2021 | Buy on Amazon |
| Uncanny Magazine Issue 60: September/October 2024 | 2024 | Buy on Amazon |
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