John Scalzi, Author . Tor $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0940-2
Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalzi's astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand master. Seventy-five-year-old John Perry joins...
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John Scalzi, Author . Subterranean $30 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59606-020-3
In this slick, lightweight SF yarn from Scalzi (Old Man's War
), Thomas Stein, a hot young Hollywood agent, has just negotiated a multimillion-dollar deal for his friend, starlet Michelle Beck, when his boss, Carl Lupo, foists a space alien...
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John Scalzi, Author . Tor $23.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1502-1
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. Shifting focus from seniors in young bodies to...
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John Scalzi, Author . Tor $24.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-765-30941-9
Scalzi's swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy (after 2005's Old Man's War
) stars Harry Creek, a low-level State Department deliverer of bad news to alien ambassadors to Earth who's also a war hero and a computer genius....
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John Scalzi, Author . Tor $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-765-31697-4
Full of whodunit twists and explosive action, Scalzi's third SF novel lacks the galactic intensity of its two related predecessors, but makes up for it with entertaining storytelling on a very human scale. Several years after the events of The...
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John Scalzi, Author . Tor $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1698-1
In the touching fourth novel set in the Old Man's War universe, Scalzi revisits the events of 2007's The Last Colony
from the perspective of Zoë, adopted daughter of previous protagonists Jane Sagan and John Perry. Jane and John are...
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John Scalzi, Author . Subterranean $20 (136p) ISBN 978-1-59606-280-1
Readers who are used to Scalzi's straightforward, optimistic SF (e.g., Old Man's War
) will be disconcerted by the dollop of ice-cold cosmic horror in this novella. Capt. Ean Tephe and his crew in the spaceship Righteous
trust their Lord...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3351-3
Scalzi’s hectically paced and philosophical continuation of the Old Man’s War series is an invigorating and morally complex interstellar thriller with heart. The human Colonial Union has lost the trust of neighboring worlds due to allegations that...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7586-5
Hugo-winner Scalzi (Redshirts) successfully shifts away from space opera with this smart, thoughtful near-future thriller resonant with the themes of freedom, ethics, and corporate greed. The story is set some 25 years after the first appearance of...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-683-0
This intriguing companion novella expands the backstory behind Scalzi’s provocative near-future science fiction novel Lock In. Originally mistaken for bird flu, “The Great Flu” killed 400 million around the world, and left millions more “locked in”...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1699-8
In a world where junior starship officers inevitably and dramatically die on planetside missions—a problem any Star Trek fan will be familiar with—ensign Andrew Dahl joins the crew of the Universal Union ship Intrepid, the pride of the fleet, and...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $24.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7607-7
Hugo-winner Scalzi integrates the best aspects of war stories into the polished and powerful sixth volume—which consists of four connected novellas—in the
Old Man’s War space opera series. The inevitable and
parallel downward spirals of the two...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $25.99 hardcover (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8888-9
Scalzi (the Old Man’s War series) delivers a strong opener for his fast-paced new space opera series, setting up key players along the primary travel corridor of an empire overflowing with complex interactions among nobles, politicians, business...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean, $28 (128p) ISBN 978-1-59606-786-8
This noir novella will be a surprise for Scalzi’s fans, who are used to his relatively sunny Heinleinesque yarns. Here he deftly extrapolates how people in a near-future society would adjust to one enormous change in the basic facts of human life:...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean, $40 (472p) ISBN 978-1-59606-858-2
Bestselling SF novelist Scalzi (The Collapsing Empire) serves up nuggets of advice on the writing trade in this bountiful gleaning of posts from two decades of his blog, Whatever. The (mostly brief) entries are divided into five main sections:...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8891-9
Hugo-winner Scalzi returns to the fascinating world of the near-future thriller Lock In with this provocative sequel. Chris Shane was the poster child for Haden’s syndrome, a condition in which a lively mind is trapped in an unresponsive body. Like...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8897-1
Scalzi makes good use of the setting and characters established in The Collapsing Empire for a space opera sequel centered on the battle for control of the interstellar Interdependency. The ruling House of Wu clashes with the ambitious Nohamapetan...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8916-9
Hugo Award–winner Scalzi knocks it out of the park with the tightly plotted, deeply satisfying conclusion to his Interdependency Sequence space opera trilogy (after The Consuming Fire). The Flow streams, trade routes that connect the planets...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean, $40 (192p) ISBN 978-1-64524-017-4
With the quirky sequel to The Dispatcher, Scalzi plays with the question of what a future in which murder has become outdated might look like. Because of an unexplained glitch, people who die of natural causes stay dead, but those who are murdered...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8912-1
A more ethical Jurassic Park meets the camaraderie of Parks and Recreation in this wonderfully witty and refreshingly earnest adventure yarn from Hugo Award winner Scalzi (Redshirts). Atomic bomb tests in the 1950s revealed a parallel Earth...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean, $45 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64524-081-5
Hugo Award winner Scalzi has a good deal of fun in his hard-boiled third Dispatcher adventure (after The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means), returning to an alternate present in which people who are murdered reappear in a place they feel safe and...
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John Scalzi. Tor, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8922-0
In this clever, fast-paced thriller, Hugo Award winner Scalzi (The Kaiju Preservation Society) subverts classic supervillain tropes with equal measures of tongue-in-cheek humor and common sense. For years, business reporter–turned–substitute teacher
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John Scalzi. Tor, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8909-1
A ridiculous premise—what if the moon actually was made of cheese?—is treated with a straight face in this cleverly entertaining sci-fi romp from Hugo Award winner Scalzi (the Old Man’s War series). A new lunar cycle begins with a confluence of odd...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean, $40 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59606-812-4
This lighthearted and amusing collection features mostly reprints of Scalzi’s (the Old Man’s War series) shortest fiction, along with four previously unpublished works. Several of the pieces (including “Denise Jones, Superbooker,” “The State of...
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John Scalzi. Subterranean, $40 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59606-932-9
Scalzi (The Consuming Fire) unleashes his wicked wit in this stocking stuffer miscellany of mostly goofs and jibes directed at the holiday season. “An Interview with Santa’s Lawyer” (one of four amusing interviews with characters peripheral to the...
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