John Scalzi
JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular SF authors of his generation. His debut Old Man’s War won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation,and Redshirts (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), and 2020’s The Last Emperox. Material from his blog, Whatever, has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. Scalzi also serves as critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.
All Books By John Scalzi
Old Man’s War
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrator: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 21, 2007
- Language: English
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4.23(49161 ratings)
Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe.
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce–and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.
Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don’t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You’ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.
John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine–and what he will become is far stranger.
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War is a stunning novel of the long war for human survival–in a universe replete with hostility
... Read moreShadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrator: James MacKenzie
- Length: 21 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 10, 2012
- Language: English
Old Man’s War author John Scalzi’s sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.
An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a “future” book (written as an April Fool’s Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book was created from an amalgamation of the most commonly used words in fantasy and science fiction novels over the previous decade.
... Read moreThe Ghost Brigades
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrator: William Dufris
- Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 12, 2008
- Language: English
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4.11(62138 ratings)
John Scalzi’s eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man’s War
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF’s toughest operations. They’re young, they’re fast and strong, and they’re totally without normal human qualms.
The universe is a dangerous place for humanity–and it’s about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF’s biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.
Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers — a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin’s DNA, Jared’s brain should be able to access Boutin’s electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.
At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin’s memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason’s for Boutin’s betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his “father,” he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity’s mere military defeat…
... Read moreThe Last Colony
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrator: William Dufris
- Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.08(45847 ratings)
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane’s past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.
The highly-anticipated conclusion to John Scalzi’s SF trilogy begun with Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades concludes with The Last Colony
... Read moreThe President’s Brain is Missing
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrator: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 47 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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3.71(1122 ratings)
Zoe’s Tale
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 19, 2008
- Language: English
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3.75(24484 ratings)
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it’s what I have to do. I’m Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to history. Friend. Daughter. Human. Seventeen years old.
Everyone on Earth knows the tale I am part of. But you don’t know my tale: How I did what I did — how I did what I had to do — not just to stay alive but to keep you alive, too. All of you. I’m going to tell it to you now, the only way I know how: not straight but true, the whole thing, to try make you feel what I felt: the joy and terror and uncertainty, panic and wonder, despair and hope. Everything that happened, bringing us to Earth, and Earth out of its captivity. All through my eyes.
It’s a story you know. But you don’t know it all.
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