John Scalzi, Sci-Fi Author Book Signing
John Scalzi will be at the Beavercreek Barnes & Noble to speak and sign his books in celebration of GET POP CULTURED.
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John Scalzi, Sci-Fi Author Book Signing
John Scalzi will be at the Beavercreek Barnes & Noble to speak and sign his books in celebration of GET POP CULTURED.
Scali's NEW book lock In will be hitting the shelves on August 26th.
Scalzi's first published novel was Old Man's War, in which 75-year-old citizens of Earth are recruited to join the defense forces of human colonies in space. Scalzi's post-published editions noted the book's unintentional similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers by thanking Heinlein in the acknowledgments of the book. Old Man's War came to publication after debuting online: Scalzi serialized the book on his web site in December 2002, which resulted in an offer for the book by Tor Books Senior Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. The hardcover edition of the book was published in January 2005. Old Man's War was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2006.
Scalzi's second published novel was Agent to the Stars. This novel was actually written prior to Old Man's War (it was written in 1997), and was placed online in 1999 as a shareware novel by Scalzi, who encouraged readers to send him a dollar if they liked the story (he re-released the book as freeware in 2004). The novel became available as a signed, limited-edition hardcover from Subterranean Press in July 2005, and featured cover art from popular Penny Arcade artist Mike Krahulik; Tor Books published it in paperback for the first time in October 2008.
In 2006, The Ghost Brigades, the sequel to Old Man's War, and The Android's Dream were released.[8] The Android's Dream did not sell as well as his Old Man's War series, but is noted by some critics for an opening heavily dependent on flatulence jokes.
In August 2006, Scalzi was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer for best new science fiction writer of 2005.
In February 2007 a novelette set in the Old Man's War universe, called The Sagan Diary, was published as a hardcover by Subterranean Press. Scalzi has commented that he originally wrote the book as free verse poetry, then converted it into prose format. An audio reading of The Sagan Diary was offered through Scalzi's website in February 2007, featuring the voices of fellow science fiction authors Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Karen Meisner, Cherie Priest and Helen Smith. In November of the same year, Subterranean Press also made The Sagan Diary text freely available online. In April 2008 Audible Frontiers produced an audiobook of the novelette, read by Stephanie Wolfe.
The third novel set in the same universe, The Last Colony, was released in April 2007. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Zoe's Tale, the fourth Old Man's War novel, presenting a different view of the events covered in The Last Colony, was published in August 2008. Zoe's Tale was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2009.
Also in 2008, Audible.com released the audiobook anthology METAtropolis, edited by Scalzi and featuring short fiction in a shared world created by Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, and Karl Schroeder. METAtropolis was planned from the beginning to be released as an audio anthology prior to any print edition. The audiobook featured the voices of Battlestar Galactica actors Michael Hogan, Alessandro Juliani and Kandyse McClure and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form in 2009. A sequel audiobook, METAtropolis: Cascadia, edited by Jay Lake, came out in 2010. In 2009 Subterranean Press released a limited edition print run of METAtropolis, which was subsequently published by Tor in a standard hardcover edition, in 2010.
On April 7, 2010, Scalzi announced the pending release of a reboot of H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy, authorized by the Piper estate, with the prospective title Fuzzy Nation. This was sold to Tor books,[and was published May 10, 2011.
Scalzi has not written many short stories, but After the Coup, featured as the first short story published originally on Tor.com, was a finalist for the 2009 Locus Award for best short story. Tor released it as an e-book in 2009.
On July 6, 2012, Tor announced that the fifth Old Man's War novel, The Human Division, would be released episodically as several e-books from January 2013 through April 2013 and as a printed book in May 2013; the printed version will have exclusive content not found in the individual e-books.
His 2012 book Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas won the 2013 Hugo Award for best novel.
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