John Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and his debut novel "Old Man's War" was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo Award. His other books include "The Android's Dream" and "The Last Colony." He has won the Hugo Award, the "Romantic Times" Reviewers Choice Award for science-fiction, the Seiun, The Kurd Lasswitz and the Geffen awards. His weblog, Whatever, is one of the most widely-read web sites in modern SF. Born and raised in California, Scalzi studied at the University of Chicago. He lives in southern Ohio with his wife and daughter.
"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...The novel's tone is right on target,
too--sentimentality balanced by hardheaded calculation, know-it-all
smugness moderated by innocent wonder. This virtuoso debut pays
tribute to SF's past while showing that well-worn tropes still can
have real zip when they're approached with ingenuity."
--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) on "Old Man's War"
"Solid...[Scalzi] sidesteps most of the cliches of military science
fiction, delivers fast-paced scenes of combat and pays attention to
the science underpinning his premise."
--"San Francisco Chronicle "on" Old Man's War
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"Thought-provoking!"
--"Entertainment Weekly "on" Old Man's War
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"Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, "Old Man's War" is
a splendid novel."
--"Cleveland Plain Dealer"
"Gripping and surpassingly original. It's "Starship Troopers"
without the lectures. It's "The Forever War" with better sex. It's
funny, it's sad, and it's true."
--Cory Doctorow on "Old Man's War"
"John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and "Old Man's
War" is classic SF seen from a modern perspective--a fast-paced
tour of a daunting, hostile universe."
--Robert Charles Wilson
"I enjoyed "Old Man's War "immensely. A space war story with fast
action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative
physics, set in a future you "almost" want to live into, and a
universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already."
--Ken MacLeod
" 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... The novel' s tone is right on target,
too-- sentimentality balanced by hardheaded calculation,
know-it-all smugness moderated by innocent wonder. This virtuoso
debut pays tribute to SF' s past while showing that well-worn
tropes still can have real zip when they' re approached with
ingenuity."
--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review) on "Old Man's War"
" Solid... [Scalzi] sidesteps most of the cliches of military
science fiction, delivers fast-paced scenes of combat and pays
attention to the science underpinning his premise."
--"San Francisco Chronicle "on" Old Man's War
"
" Thought-provoking!"
--"Entertainment Weekly "on" Old Man's War
"
""
" Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, "Old Man' s War"
is a splendid novel."
--"Cleveland Plain Dealer"
"Gripping and surpassingly original. It's "Starship Troopers"
without the lectures. It's "The Forever War" with better sex. It's
funny, it's sad, and it's true."
--Cory Doctorow on "Old Man' s War"
"John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and "Old Man's
War" is classic SF seen from a modern perspective--a fast-paced
tour of a daunting, hostile universe."
--Robert Charles Wilson
" I enjoyed "Old Man's War "immensely. A space war story with fast
action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative
physics, set in a future you "almost" want to live into, and
auniverse you sincerely hope you don't live in already."
--Ken MacLeod
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