Books written by John Scalzi

  • The Human Division #3: We Only Need the Heads

    Evans smiled. "It's not magic, it's physics, ma'am," he said. "Although the high—end sort of physics that looks like magic from the outside. It's to relativistic physics what relativistic physics is to Newtonian physics. So that's two ...

  • The Human Division #6: The Back Channel

    Brandt pressed the cocktail he had in his hand into Hart's. “I haven't started on this one yet," he said. "I'll make another." "Where's Mom and Dad?" Hart asked, sipping the drink. He frowned. It was a gin and tonic, more than a little ...

  • The Human Division #9: The Observers

    Brandt pressed the cocktail he had in his hand into Hart's. “I haven't started on this one yet," he said. "I'll make another." "Where's Mom and Dad?" Hart asked, sipping the drink. He frowned. It was a gin and tonic, more than a little ...

  • The Human Division #7: The Dog King

    Brandt pressed the cocktail he had in his hand into Hart's. “I haven't started on this one yet," he said. "I'll make another." "Where's Mom and Dad?" Hart asked, sipping the drink. He frowned. It was a gin and tonic, more than a little ...

  • The Human Division

    “Fine, I'm needling him,” Brandt said, took a sip of his gin and tonic, frowned and went back to the bar to add a splash more tonic. “But after so many years of listening to him talk about the historical import of each election and the ...

  • The Human Division #8: The Sound of Rebellion

    The eighth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.

  • The Human Division #4: A Voice in the Wilderness

    The fourth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.

  • The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke

    The fifth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.

  • The Human Division #11: A Problem of Proportion

    The eleventh episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.

  • The Human Division #12: The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads

    The twelfth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.

  • The Human Division #10: This Must Be the Place

    The tenth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War.

  • Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers

    Ranging from boisterous to bleak, from humorous to harrowing, from action-filled to quiet and meditative; taking place in alternate pasts, the present day, the far, far future, and times that never were; set on Earth, in the distant reaches ...

  • The End of All Things

    The class action suit against Ostrander that followed was, shall we say, very satisfying.” Han definitely smiled at that. “But it also meant that Ostrander now goes out of his way to warn off anyone I try to get a pilot's job with,” I ...

  • The End of All Things #1: The Life of the Mind: The End of All Things

    The class action suit against Ostrander that followed was, shall we say, very satisfying.” Han definitely smiled at that. “But it also meant that Ostrander now goes out of his way to warn off anyone I try to get a pilot's job with,” I ...

  • Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2

    Our Dumb Guy: Chance the Gardener, also known as Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellars) Our Story: A mentally challenged gardener (Sellars) lives his whole life in the Washington, DC, townhouse of his boss. After the boss's death, ...

  • Redshirts: Chapters 1-4

    "Redshirts is (a) ruin-your-underwear funny, (b) a mind-bender sure to Philip K. Dick you over, and (c) absurdly rich in ideas and feeling. John Scalzi sets his imagination to STUN and scores a direct hit. Read on and prosper.

  • Head On: A Novel of the Near Future

    "As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty—most of them in someone else's body." —USA ...

  • Metatropolis

    Welcome to the future of cities. Welcome to Metatropolis.

  • Das Syndrom

    Das Syndrom

  • Old Man's War

    “ Martin was on the Fresno city council . ... I'm top of A squad ; Angela , you have B ; Terry , C ; Mark , D ; Sarah , E ; and Martin , F. I've given you permission to examine your recruit files with your BrainPal ; choose your second ...