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John Scalzi
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American science fiction author, former SFWA president, and blogger best known for the Hugo-winning Old Man's War series and the novel Redshirts.
Biography
John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for the Old Man's War series, which won the Hugo Award for Best Series.
Scalzi has maintained the blog Whatever since 1998 and won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 predominantly on the basis of that blog, which he has also used for charity drives. He has written non-fiction books and columns on topics including finance, video games, films, astronomy, writing, and politics, and served as a creative consultant for the television series Stargate Universe.
His novel Redshirts won the Hugo Award for Best Novel; his novels The Collapsing Empire and The Kaiju Preservation Society have both won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Books by John Scalzi
Redshirts
Ensign Andrew Dahl is posted to the prestige Universal Union capital ship Intrepid, where away missions repeatedly lead to lethal encounters in which senior officers always survive while lower-ranking crew members die. Andrew discovers information that changes his and his colleagues’ understanding of the ship and offers a risky chance to save their lives; Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel.