tor.com - 3/24/2009
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John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War took me by surprise. I picked up the book because I’d heard a lot of good things about him and decided I’d give it a one-page tryout. Either he’d grip me right away or I’d drop it. Twenty pages later I realized I hadn’t moved from the spot. OK, John. Grip ...
blogs.amctv.com - 3/26/2009
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blogs.amctv.com —
Another reader question! I do so love reader
questions, since they keep me from having to think
up a column topic on my own. This one asks: "How do you think the economic recession will affect movies in general, and science fiction and fantasy ...
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John Scalzi - What the Recession Means for SciFi ...
variety-sf.blogspot.com - 3/22/2009
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variety-sf.blogspot.com —
A collection of short tales about human encounters
with alien animals (plus one of an alien's encounter
with an earth animal). Light reading. Joke in the last one went over my head, & is probably comprehensible to only US folks. Fact sheet. ...
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John Scalzi - "Alien Animal Encounters" (short story, ...
blogs.amctv.com - 3/20/2009
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blogs.amctv.com —
A friend of mine and I were talking
about science fiction movies -- I know, a shocker
-- and he asked me a fairly random question: Could I think of any good science fiction movies starring a musician? When I noted the apparent randomness of this, ...
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John Scalzi - David Bowie Strikes a Chord With SciFi; ...
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March 25, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
It feels like the start of the week... Interviews Over at the Nebula Awards Blog, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz interviews John Kessel. Hathor Legacy interviews Pat Cadigan. Cemetery Dance interviews Ellen Datlow (scroll down or better yet, use the search function). Jason Henninger interviews John Scalzi. Advice/Articles The Blood-Red Pencil on What is Editing? Financial Times on What drives people to steal precious books. Rich Horton on Hugo nomination comments (on everything but the short fiction). David ...
SF Tidbits for 3/25/09
SF Signal —
Mark Charan Newton (Nights of Villjamur) talks about the Dying Earth subgenre of science fiction.
Interviews & Profiles: @The Nebula Awards website: John Kessel. @tor.com: John Scalzi. @Agony Column: Frank M. Robinson. @The Hathor Legacy: Pat Cadigan [via Ellen Datlow]
To paraphrase Johnny from Airplane!: "There's a sale at Nightshade!" Buy Laird Barron's Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection, The Imago ...
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REVIEW: Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
sfsignal.com 1/7/2009 — MY RATING:
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A first contact story like no other -- aliens finally come to Earth, but because their forms are distasteful need an image makeover and hire a Hollywood agent introduce them to humanity.
MY REVIEW:
PROS: ...
Read a John Scalzi Story, Help a Writer in Need
subterraneanpress.com 12/8/2008 — Over at his blog, Whatever , John Scalzi has published the first look at a short story we commissioned by him, “The State of Super Villainy.” Head over to John’s site for all the particulars — you may need to scroll down a bit ...
John Scalzi Interview
assortednonsense.com 9/21/2009 — Here’s an interview I did with John Scalzi at the world science fiction convention in Toronto back in 2003. Back before any of his novels came out. At this time he was just kind of getting into the whole science fiction convention thing.
I ...
Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi
nethspace.blogspot.com 3/16/2009 — My review of Agent to the Stars is available over at Bookspot Central where I'm an associate reviewer ( US , UK , Canada ). I enjoyed it - it's pretty much like other Scalzi books with a bit of the first-book syndrome going on. With the basic premise of the novel being that an alien ...
10 Facts About John Scalzi
feedproxy.google.com 3 days ago — 1. Scalzi is really a clockwork automaton who has been programmed to slowly spread angst wherever he goes.
2. As we all know Wheaton is the Bizarro Scalzi. If Scalzi ever shook hands with Wil Wheaton the world ...
January 14, 2009: Scalzi and Stargate, Together At Last
josephmallozzi.wordpress.com 1/15/2009 —
Stargate: Universe Creative Consultant John Scalzi
Carl and James
Brad and John
Where Destiny will be docked.
Foie gras
Sweeeet scallops
Le Crispy Canard presented...
...and served. ...
Assorted Nonsense: vintage John Scalzi interview
sffaudio.com 9/21/2009 —
Joe Mahoney , CBC Radio Producer, Science Fiction writer and blogger recorded an interview at Worldcon 2003 in Toronto with the then virtually unknown author John Scalzi. Here’s how Scalzi described his then upcoming novel Old Man’s War :
“a Heinlein juvenile with old ...
Audiobook Review: METAtropolis edited by John Scalzi
tor.com 10/24/2008 — METAtropolis is a new SF anthology edited by John Scalzi, featuring stories by Scalzi himself, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias S. Buckell, and Karl Schroeder. But it isn’t your normal, everyday anthology in which all the writers write separate ...
John Scalzi is right
nielsenhayden.com 7/7/2009 — Although really, my first reaction to the news that F&SF will be running a writing workshop was to think to...
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sffaudio.com 2/13/2009 —
Listen NOW to the full Aural Delights No 63 John Scalzi mp3
Editorial: by Tony C Smith 01:42
Poem: Spot In Space by GO Clark 04:45
Flash: Jesus and the Cowboys by Jay Lake 07:00
Fact: Miles J Breuer by Amy H Sturgi s 13:22
Main Fiction : After The Coup ...