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What do readers say about Old Man's War?
engrossing and believable easy, conversational tone crisp and steady made political science interestingJohn 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... More details on Old Man's War
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. She's buried in Harris Creek Cemetery, not more than a mile down the road from where I live and where we raised our family. Getting her into th...
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What do readers say about Fuzzy Nation?
character centric storytelling lawyer meets crusader-for-a-species golden age scifi some great court-room momentsZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra-as long as the planet is certifiably free of native sentients. So when an outback prospector discovers a species of small, appealing bipeds who might well tur... More details on Fuzzy Nation
“I can’t believe we have to go through this again,” Holloway said. “It’s not that I don’t value you as part of this team, Carl. I do. Really, I do. But I can’t help but think that in some way, I’m jus...
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What do readers say about Agent to the Stars?
humorous & fun fun and engaging story mechanical and fairly predictable funny and heartwarmingThe space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: they're hideously ugly and smell like rotting fish.
So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need s... More details on Agent to the Stars
Headsets are a godsend; they allow you to speak on the phone while leaving your hands free for the truly important things. My hands were currently occupied with a blue rubber racquetball, which I was ...
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What do readers say about The Collapsing Empire?
politics and palace intrigue multi part series a space opera epic space opera*2018 LOCUS AWARD WINNER OF BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL*
*2018 HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL*
"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today." -Joe Hill, author of The Fireman
The first novel of a new space-opera seq... More details on The Collapsing Empire
For the week leading up to his death, Cardenia Wu-Patrick stayed mostly at the bedside of her father, Batrin, who, when he was informed that his condition had reached the limits of medical competence ...
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What do readers say about The Kaiju Preservation Society?
irreverent humour and banter very dialogue based endless inane slapstick dialogue a pop songThe Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food d... More details on The Kaiju Preservation Society
Rob Sanders welcomed me in and motioned me over to his “conversation pit,” as he liked to call it, which was four massive, primary-colored beanbags around a low table. The table was one of those ones ...
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What do readers say about Lock In?
fully conscious but immobile disability and disability rights scifi mystery adventure great blending of genresA blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and ... More details on Lock In
MY FIRST DAY on the job coincided with the first day of the Haden Walkout, and I’m not going to lie, that was some awkward timing. A feed of me walking into the FBI building got a fair amount of play ...
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What do readers say about The Android's Dream?
alien foreign relations light, funny and action-packed scifi political thriller young and cheek humorA human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most . . . unusual . . . way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race... More details on The Android's Dream
Moeller nodded absentmindedly at his assistant, who placed the schedule of today’s negotiations in front of him, and shifted again in his chair. The tissue surrounding the apparatus itched, but there’...
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What do readers say about Starplex?
a matriarchal alien race alien contact books weak and b-story like standalone hard scifi novelsThe Aurora Award-winning Science-fiction Classic back in Print!The only novel from its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.The giant exploration starship Starplex - crewed by humans, dolphins, and extraterrestrials - embarks on a... More details on Starplex
It had been like a gift from the gods: the discovery that the Milky Way galaxy was permeated by a vast network of artificial shortcuts that allowed for instantaneous journeys between star systems. No ...
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What do readers say about We Are Legion (We Are Bob)?
light tone throughout interesting space opera third-person'and short story style first person narrativeBob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century ... More details on We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
The CryoEterna sales rep—the nametag identified him as Kevin—nodded and gestured toward the big placard, which displayed the cryonics process in ghoulish detail. I took a moment to note his Armani sui...
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What do readers say about Will Save the Galaxy for Food?
genuinely funny stories the snappy writing comic scifi novel lighthearted and funA not-quite epic science fiction adventure about a down-on-his luck galactic pilot caught in a cross-galaxy struggle for survival! Space travel just isn't what it used to be. With the invention of Quantum Teleportation, space heroes aren't needed any... More details on Will Save the Galaxy for Food
I mashed the button to open the port-side observation shutters just as day broke on the planet below. An orange crescent slashed brilliantly across the blackness, and the sleeping world was gradually ...
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