John Scalzi

John Scalzi has written at least 172 books. Their most popular book is Old Man's War with 722 saves with an average rating of 4.19⭐.

They are best known for writing in the genres Science fiction, Fantasy, and Adventure.

Adventurous, funny, and lighthearted are their most common moods. Their next book, When the Moon Hits Your Eye, is scheduled for release on 3/25/2025.

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.19	468 reads
The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi	3.92	309 reads
Starter Villain John Scalzi	4.05	195 reads
Redshirts John Scalzi	3.87	341 reads
The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi	4.07	236 reads
Lock In John Scalzi	3.97	201 reads
The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi	3.96	255 reads
The Last Colony John Scalzi	3.97	199 reads
The Consuming Fire John Scalzi	4.22	164 reads
The Last Emperox John Scalzi	4.12	159 reads
Zoe's Tale John Scalzi	3.79	122 reads
Head On John Scalzi	4.04	117 reads
The Human Division John Scalzi	3.96	104 reads
Fuzzy Nation John Scalzi	4.12	104 reads
The Dispatcher John Scalzi	3.99	130 reads
The End of All Things John Scalzi	3.91	96 reads
The Android's Dream John Scalzi	3.99	65 reads
Agent to the Stars John Scalzi	3.73	71 reads
Murder by Other Means John Scalzi	4.05	57 reads
Unlocked John Scalzi	4.01	47 reads
The Sagan Diary John Scalzi	3	36 reads
The Human Division #1: The B-Team John Scalzi	4.17	31 reads
Slow Time Between the Stars John Scalzi	4.23	33 reads
Questions for a Soldier John Scalzi	3.87	21 reads
The God Engines John Scalzi	3.9	23 reads
Travel by Bullet Travel by Bullet John Scalzi	4	28 reads
After the Coup John Scalzi	3.81	20 reads
Miniatures John Scalzi	3.88	26 reads
The Human Division #2: Walk the Plank John Scalzi	3.73	20 reads
We Only Need the Heads John Scalzi	3.86	19 reads
The Back Channel John Scalzi	3.87	19 reads
A Voice in the Wilderness John Scalzi	3.57	18 reads
This Must Be the Place John Scalzi	3.92	17 reads
The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke John Scalzi	4	17 reads
The Human Division #13: Earth Below, Sky Above John Scalzi	4.15	16 reads
The Sound of Rebellion John Scalzi	4.07	17 reads
The Human Division #7: The Dog King John Scalzi	4	17 reads
The Observers John Scalzi	4	17 reads
Robots vs. Fairies	3.75	6 reads
The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads John Scalzi	4.09	16 reads
A Problem of Proportion John Scalzi	4.08	16 reads
The Life of the Mind The Life of the Mind John Scalzi	4.5	11 reads
METAtropolis	3.73	13 reads
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 John Scalzi	2.88	11 reads
Can Long Endure John Scalzi	4.17	9 reads
A Very Scalzi Christmas John Scalzi	4.29	11 reads
This Hollow Union John Scalzi	4.33	8 reads
To Stand or Fall To Stand or Fall John Scalzi	4.33	9 reads
The Tale of The Wicked The Tale of The Wicked John Scalzi	4.14	8 reads
The New Space Opera 2	4	4 reads
Rip-Off! Rip-Off! Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi Jack Campbell Robert Charles Wilson Mike Resnick Allen M. Steele Daryl Gregory Lavie Tidhar James Patrick Kelly Mary Robinette Kowal	3.4	6 reads
The Origin of the Flow The Origin of the Flow John Scalzi	4	3 reads
The President's Brain is Missing John Scalzi	4.14	7 reads
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing John Scalzi	4	2 reads
The Human Division Extras John Scalzi	5	4 reads
La vieja guardia John Scalzi Rafael Marín (Translator)	4	6 reads
The Best of Subterranean	3.67	4 reads
The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World James S. A. Corey Veronica Roth Rebecca Roanhorse Ann Leckie Nnedi Okorafor John Scalzi	4	5 reads
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition Charlie Jane Anders Dale Bailey Kelly Barnhill Richard Bowes Marie Brennan Adam Christopher John Chu A.M. Dellamonica Ruthanna Emrys Max Gladstone Kathleen Ann Goonan Nicola Griffith Maria Dahvana Headley Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Ken Liu Daniel José Older Mary Rickert John Scalzi Veronica Schanoes Genevieve Valentine Jo Walton Kai Ashante Wilson Ray Wood Isabel Yap Seanan McGuire Yoon Ha Lee	4.5	3 reads
Clash of the Geeks Clash of the Geeks Wil Wheaton John Scalzi Patrick Rothfuss Catherynne M. Valente Stephen Toulouse Rachel Swirsky Scott Mattes John Anealio Bernadette Durbin	3.67	3 reads
How I Proposed to My Wife How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story John Scalzi	4	5 reads
The Collapsing Empire: Interdependency Book 1 John Scalzi	4.38	5 reads
Las Brigadas Fantasma John Scalzi	4	4 reads
Everything but the Squeal Everything but the Squeal John Scalzi	4	2 reads
An Election An Election John Scalzi	4.33	4 reads
Judge Sn Goes Golfing John Scalzi	4	4 reads
The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon John Harris	5	2 reads
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 55, April 2011 Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 55, April 2011 Brit Mandelo	2.5	3 reads
Muse of Fire John Scalzi	5	1 read
La colonia perdida John Scalzi	4	4 reads
Black Tide Rising John Ringo Mike Massa Tedd Roberts Christopher L. Smith Jason Córdova Eric S. Brown Eric Flint Jody Lynn Nye John Scalzi Dave Klecha Sarah A. Hoyt Kacey Ezell Michael Z. Williamson	4	3 reads
El final de todas las cosas John Scalzi	4	4 reads
Automated Customer Service Automated Customer Service John Scalzi	4.5	4 reads
Love, Death and Robots Love, Death and Robots Tim Miller Alberto Mielgo Claudine Griggs David W. Amendola Joe R. Lansdale John Scalzi Ken Liu Kirsten Cross Marko Kloos Michael Swanwick Steven Lewis Vitaliy Shushko David Fincher Alastair Reynolds Peter F. Hamilton	3	2 reads
La historia de Zoë John Scalzi Rafael Marín (Translator)	4.33	4 reads
Old Man's War Boxed Set 1 John Scalzi	0	2 reads
Shapers of Worlds Tanya Huff John Scalzi L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Shelley Adina Derek Künsken Thoraiya Dyer Gareth L. Powell Seanan McGuire Fonda Lee Christopher Ruocchio David Brin D. J. Butler Dr. Charles E. Gannon David Weber Joe Haldeman Julie E. Czerneda John C. Wright	4	1 read
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City John Scalzi	4	2 reads
The Mallet of Loving Correction John Scalzi	0	0 reads
Love, Death + Robots Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 Tim Miller Neal Asher J.G. Ballard Harlan Ellison Joe R. Lansdale John Scalzi Alan Baxter Justin Coates Joachim Heijndermans	0	1 read
Galaktische Mission John Scalzi Bernhard Kempen (Translator)	3.5	1 read
Uncanny Magazine Issue 56 Uncanny Magazine Issue 56: January/February 2024 Mary Robinette Kowal Jordan Taylor Jana Bianchi Natalia Theodoridou Ana Hurtado Cheri Kamei Angela Liu John Scalzi	4.5	2 reads
Prăbușirea Imperiului John Scalzi Nina Iordache (Translator)	4.5	2 reads
Resist Elizabeth Bear Charlie Jane Anders Daniel H. Wilson John Scalzi Desirina Boskovitch Jake Kerr Madeleine Roux Saladin Ahmed Leigh Alexander Violet Allen Jason Arnopp Delilah S. Dawson Kevin Hearne Laura Hudson Sarah Kuhn Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali An Owomoyela Samuel Peralta Beth Revis David Wellington Troy L. Wiggins Fran Wilde Chet Williamson Charles Yu Kieron Gillen C. Robert Cargill	0	0 reads
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Charles Stross Vandana Singh Paolo Bacigalupi Neal Asher Rachel Swirsky John Scalzi M. Rickert Tony Ballantyne David D. Levine Genevieve Valentine Ian Creasey Marissa Lingen Paul Cornell David Moles Madeline Ashby Tobias S. Buckell Ken Liu Oliver Morton Karl Schroeder Brenda Cooper Liz Williams Ted Kosmatka Daryl Gregory Alaya Dawn Johnson James L. Cambias Hannu Rajaniemi Kage Baker Peter Watts Jo Walton Cory Doctorow Elizabeth Bear Yoon Ha Lee Catherynne M. Valente Mary Robinette Kowal	3	1 read
Războiul bătrânilor Războiul bătrânilor John Scalzi Marian Truță (Translator)	4	2 reads
Unlocked Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome John Scalzi	0	2 reads
El fin del imperio John Scalzi Simon Saito Navarro (Translator)	4	2 reads
Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 Tor Books Sylvia Day Brandon Sanderson Charles Stross Ken MacLeod Lee Mandelo Rachel Swirsky Meghan McCarron John Scalzi	3	1 read
Krieg der Klone John Scalzi	5	2 reads
El agente de las estrellas John Scalzi	2	1 read
Don't Live For Your Obituary Don't Live For Your Obituary John Scalzi	3	2 reads
Sneak Peek for Starter Villain John Scalzi	4	2 reads
Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies: Selected Writings from Whatever, 2013-2018 John Scalzi	3	1 read
When the Yogurt Took Over John Scalzi	5	1 read
The Forever War Series The Forever War Series Joe Haldeman	5	2 reads
Die letzte Kolonie John Scalzi	4	2 reads
METAtropolis METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization	0	2 reads
The High Castle The High Castle John Scalzi	0	0 reads
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi John Scalzi	5	2 reads

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Old Man's War John Scalzi	4.19	468 reads
The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi	3.92	309 reads
Starter Villain John Scalzi	4.05	195 reads
Redshirts John Scalzi	3.87	341 reads
The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi	4.07	236 reads
Lock In John Scalzi	3.97	201 reads
The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi	3.96	255 reads
The Last Colony John Scalzi	3.97	199 reads
The Consuming Fire John Scalzi	4.22	164 reads
The Last Emperox John Scalzi	4.12	159 reads
Zoe's Tale John Scalzi	3.79	122 reads
Head On John Scalzi	4.04	117 reads
The Human Division John Scalzi	3.96	104 reads
Fuzzy Nation John Scalzi	4.12	104 reads
The Dispatcher John Scalzi	3.99	130 reads
The End of All Things John Scalzi	3.91	96 reads
The Android's Dream John Scalzi	3.99	65 reads
Agent to the Stars John Scalzi	3.73	71 reads
Murder by Other Means John Scalzi	4.05	57 reads
Unlocked John Scalzi	4.01	47 reads
The Sagan Diary John Scalzi	3	36 reads
The Human Division #1: The B-Team John Scalzi	4.17	31 reads
Slow Time Between the Stars John Scalzi	4.23	33 reads
Questions for a Soldier John Scalzi	3.87	21 reads
The God Engines John Scalzi	3.9	23 reads
Travel by Bullet Travel by Bullet John Scalzi	4	28 reads
After the Coup John Scalzi	3.81	20 reads
Miniatures John Scalzi	3.88	26 reads
The Human Division #2: Walk the Plank John Scalzi	3.73	20 reads
We Only Need the Heads John Scalzi	3.86	19 reads
The Back Channel John Scalzi	3.87	19 reads
A Voice in the Wilderness John Scalzi	3.57	18 reads
This Must Be the Place John Scalzi	3.92	17 reads
The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke John Scalzi	4	17 reads
The Human Division #13: Earth Below, Sky Above John Scalzi	4.15	16 reads
The Sound of Rebellion John Scalzi	4.07	17 reads
The Human Division #7: The Dog King John Scalzi	4	17 reads
The Observers John Scalzi	4	17 reads
Robots vs. Fairies	3.75	6 reads
The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads John Scalzi	4.09	16 reads
A Problem of Proportion John Scalzi	4.08	16 reads
The Life of the Mind The Life of the Mind John Scalzi	4.5	11 reads
METAtropolis	3.73	13 reads
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008 John Scalzi	2.88	11 reads
Can Long Endure John Scalzi	4.17	9 reads
A Very Scalzi Christmas John Scalzi	4.29	11 reads
This Hollow Union John Scalzi	4.33	8 reads
To Stand or Fall To Stand or Fall John Scalzi	4.33	9 reads
The Tale of The Wicked The Tale of The Wicked John Scalzi	4.14	8 reads
The New Space Opera 2	4	4 reads
Rip-Off! Rip-Off! Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi Jack Campbell Robert Charles Wilson Mike Resnick Allen M. Steele Daryl Gregory Lavie Tidhar James Patrick Kelly Mary Robinette Kowal	3.4	6 reads
The Origin of the Flow The Origin of the Flow John Scalzi	4	3 reads
The President's Brain is Missing John Scalzi	4.14	7 reads
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing John Scalzi	4	2 reads
The Human Division Extras John Scalzi	5	4 reads
La vieja guardia John Scalzi Rafael Marín (Translator)	4	6 reads
The Best of Subterranean	3.67	4 reads
The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World James S. A. Corey Veronica Roth Rebecca Roanhorse Ann Leckie Nnedi Okorafor John Scalzi	4	5 reads
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition Charlie Jane Anders Dale Bailey Kelly Barnhill Richard Bowes Marie Brennan Adam Christopher John Chu A.M. Dellamonica Ruthanna Emrys Max Gladstone Kathleen Ann Goonan Nicola Griffith Maria Dahvana Headley Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Ken Liu Daniel José Older Mary Rickert John Scalzi Veronica Schanoes Genevieve Valentine Jo Walton Kai Ashante Wilson Ray Wood Isabel Yap Seanan McGuire Yoon Ha Lee	4.5	3 reads
Clash of the Geeks Clash of the Geeks Wil Wheaton John Scalzi Patrick Rothfuss Catherynne M. Valente Stephen Toulouse Rachel Swirsky Scott Mattes John Anealio Bernadette Durbin	3.67	3 reads
How I Proposed to My Wife How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story John Scalzi	4	5 reads
The Collapsing Empire: Interdependency Book 1 John Scalzi	4.38	5 reads
Las Brigadas Fantasma John Scalzi	4	4 reads
Everything but the Squeal Everything but the Squeal John Scalzi	4	2 reads
An Election An Election John Scalzi	4.33	4 reads
Judge Sn Goes Golfing John Scalzi	4	4 reads
The Art of John Harris: Beyond the Horizon John Harris	5	2 reads
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 55, April 2011 Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 55, April 2011 Brit Mandelo	2.5	3 reads
Muse of Fire John Scalzi	5	1 read
La colonia perdida John Scalzi	4	4 reads
Black Tide Rising John Ringo Mike Massa Tedd Roberts Christopher L. Smith Jason Córdova Eric S. Brown Eric Flint Jody Lynn Nye John Scalzi Dave Klecha Sarah A. Hoyt Kacey Ezell Michael Z. Williamson	4	3 reads
El final de todas las cosas John Scalzi	4	4 reads
Automated Customer Service Automated Customer Service John Scalzi	4.5	4 reads
Love, Death and Robots Love, Death and Robots Tim Miller Alberto Mielgo Claudine Griggs David W. Amendola Joe R. Lansdale John Scalzi Ken Liu Kirsten Cross Marko Kloos Michael Swanwick Steven Lewis Vitaliy Shushko David Fincher Alastair Reynolds Peter F. Hamilton	3	2 reads
La historia de Zoë John Scalzi Rafael Marín (Translator)	4.33	4 reads
Old Man's War Boxed Set 1 John Scalzi	0	2 reads
Shapers of Worlds Tanya Huff John Scalzi L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Shelley Adina Derek Künsken Thoraiya Dyer Gareth L. Powell Seanan McGuire Fonda Lee Christopher Ruocchio David Brin D. J. Butler Dr. Charles E. Gannon David Weber Joe Haldeman Julie E. Czerneda John C. Wright	4	1 read
The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City John Scalzi	4	2 reads
The Mallet of Loving Correction John Scalzi	0	0 reads
Love, Death + Robots Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3 Tim Miller Neal Asher J.G. Ballard Harlan Ellison Joe R. Lansdale John Scalzi Alan Baxter Justin Coates Joachim Heijndermans	0	1 read
Galaktische Mission John Scalzi Bernhard Kempen (Translator)	3.5	1 read
Uncanny Magazine Issue 56 Uncanny Magazine Issue 56: January/February 2024 Mary Robinette Kowal Jordan Taylor Jana Bianchi Natalia Theodoridou Ana Hurtado Cheri Kamei Angela Liu John Scalzi	4.5	2 reads
Prăbușirea Imperiului John Scalzi Nina Iordache (Translator)	4.5	2 reads
Resist Elizabeth Bear Charlie Jane Anders Daniel H. Wilson John Scalzi Desirina Boskovitch Jake Kerr Madeleine Roux Saladin Ahmed Leigh Alexander Violet Allen Jason Arnopp Delilah S. Dawson Kevin Hearne Laura Hudson Sarah Kuhn Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali An Owomoyela Samuel Peralta Beth Revis David Wellington Troy L. Wiggins Fran Wilde Chet Williamson Charles Yu Kieron Gillen C. Robert Cargill	0	0 reads
Twenty-First Century Science Fiction Charles Stross Vandana Singh Paolo Bacigalupi Neal Asher Rachel Swirsky John Scalzi M. Rickert Tony Ballantyne David D. Levine Genevieve Valentine Ian Creasey Marissa Lingen Paul Cornell David Moles Madeline Ashby Tobias S. Buckell Ken Liu Oliver Morton Karl Schroeder Brenda Cooper Liz Williams Ted Kosmatka Daryl Gregory Alaya Dawn Johnson James L. Cambias Hannu Rajaniemi Kage Baker Peter Watts Jo Walton Cory Doctorow Elizabeth Bear Yoon Ha Lee Catherynne M. Valente Mary Robinette Kowal	3	1 read
Războiul bătrânilor Războiul bătrânilor John Scalzi Marian Truță (Translator)	4	2 reads
Unlocked Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome John Scalzi	0	2 reads
El fin del imperio John Scalzi Simon Saito Navarro (Translator)	4	2 reads
Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 Tor Books Sylvia Day Brandon Sanderson Charles Stross Ken MacLeod Lee Mandelo Rachel Swirsky Meghan McCarron John Scalzi	3	1 read
Krieg der Klone John Scalzi	5	2 reads
El agente de las estrellas John Scalzi	2	1 read
Don't Live For Your Obituary Don't Live For Your Obituary John Scalzi	3	2 reads
Sneak Peek for Starter Villain John Scalzi	4	2 reads
Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies: Selected Writings from Whatever, 2013-2018 John Scalzi	3	1 read
When the Yogurt Took Over John Scalzi	5	1 read
The Forever War Series The Forever War Series Joe Haldeman	5	2 reads
Die letzte Kolonie John Scalzi	4	2 reads
METAtropolis METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization	0	2 reads
The High Castle The High Castle John Scalzi	0	0 reads
Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi John Scalzi	5	2 reads

John Scalzi

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