John Scalzi
John Scalzi
John Michael Scalzi IIis an American science fiction author, online writer, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written frequently on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 May 1969
CountryUnited States of America
Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.
In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.
Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.
Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.
You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.
Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.