John Scalzi Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Old Man's War Books
| Old Man's War | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Ghost Brigades | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Last Colony | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Zoe's Tale | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Human Division | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The End of All Things | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Old Man's War Short Stories/Novellas
| Questions for a Soldier | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Sagan Diary | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| After the Coup | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Shadow War Of The Night Dragons Short Stories/Novellas
| The Dead City | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Lock In Books
| Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Lock In | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Head On | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Interdependency Books
| The Collapsing Empire | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Consuming Fire | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Last Emperox | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The Dispatcher Books
| The Dispatcher | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Murder By Other Means | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Travel by Bullet | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Human Division Books
| The B-Team | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Walk the Plank | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| We Only Need the Heads | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| A Voice in the Wilderness | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Tales From the Clarke | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Back Channel | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Dog King | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Sound of Rebellion | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Observers | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| This Must Be the Place | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| A Problem of Proportion | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Earth Below, Sky Above | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of End of All Things Books
| The Life of the Mind | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| This Hollow Union | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Can Long Endure | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| To Stand or Fall | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of METAtropolis Books
| METAtropolis | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Cascadia | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Green Space | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Byways | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Wings We Dare Aspire | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Stochasticity | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Tensegrity | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Uncle John's Presents Books
| Uncle John's Indispensible Guide to the Year 2000 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents Necessary Numbers: An Everyday Guide to Sizes, Measures, and More | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Great Big Australian Bathroom Reader | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents Blame It on the Weather | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents: The Book of the Dumb | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents Mom's Bathtub Reader | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Treasury | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Colossal Collection of Quotable Quotes | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tees Off on Golf | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Christmas Collection | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts: And Bizarre Information | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tales to Inspire | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Cat Lover's Companion | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Book of Love | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Quintessential Collection of Notable Quotables | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Wonderful World of Odd | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Dog Lover's Companion | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Presents The Ultimate Challenge Trivia Quiz | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Sports Spectacular | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Takes a Swing at Baseball | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Golden Plunger Awards | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Horse Lover's Companion | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Jingle Bell Christmas | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Certified Organic Bathroom Reader | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Salutes the Armed Forces | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader WISE UP! | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader The World's Gone Crazy | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Briefs: Quick Bits of Fascinating Facts and Amazing Trivia | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader History's Lists | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Tunes into TV | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Impossible Questions | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's True Crime: A Classic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Vroom! | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Nature Calls | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Political Briefs | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Fake Facts | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Inventions | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Zipper Accidents | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Weird Canada | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Germophobia: Dumb Doctors, Botched Operations, and All Manner of Bad Medicine | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Attack of the Factoids: Bizarre Bites of Incredible Information | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Robotica | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Lists that Make You Go Hmmm . . . | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Beer-Topia | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's Weird, Weird World: EPIC | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncle John's New & Improved Briefs: Fast Facts, Terse Trivia & Astute Articles | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Whatever Books
| Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Mallet of Loving Correction | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Agent to the Stars | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Android's Dream | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The God Engines | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Dead City | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Redshirts | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| A Very Scalzi Christmas | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Kaiju Preservation Society | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Starter Villain | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Tale of the Wicked | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Judge Sn Goes Golfing | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The President's Brain is Missing | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| When the Yogurt Took Over | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| An Election | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Muse of Fire | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Everything but the Squeal | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Miniatures | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Rough Guide to Money Online | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Rough Guide to the Universe | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| 24 Frames into the Future | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Don't Live For Your Obituary | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Black Tide Rising Books
| Under a Graveyard Sky | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| To Sail a Darkling Sea | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Islands of Rage & Hope | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Strands of Sorrow | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Black Tide Rising | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Valley of Shadows | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Voices of the Fall | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| River of Night | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| At the End of the World | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| At the End of the Journey | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| We Shall Rise | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| United We Stand | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Fuzzy Sapiens Books
| Little Fuzzy | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Other Human Race | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fuzzy Sapiens | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Fuzzy Papers | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fuzzy Bones | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Golden Dream | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Adventures of Little Fuzzy | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fuzzies and Other People | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Complete Fuzzy | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fuzzy Nation | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Caveat Fuzzy | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Fuzzy Conundrum | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fuzzy Ergo Sum | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Fuzzy Logic | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Far Reaches Collection Books
| Slow Time Between the Stars | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| How It Unfolds | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Long Game | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Void | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Falling Bodies | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Just Out of Jupiter's Reach | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Space Opera | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Rip-Off! | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 edition | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Black Tide Rising | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Robots vs. Fairies | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
John Scalzi, a distinguished voice in American science fiction, has carved a niche for himself both online and in the literary world. Born on May 10, 1969, John’s journey began in the vibrant suburbs of Los Angeles—Glendora, Covina, and Claremont, to be precise. His high school years were shared with notable figures like the blogger John Marshall, culminating in their graduation from The Webb Schools of California in 1987. Pursuing higher education, John ventured to The University of Chicago, where his paths crossed with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Auburn. During this transformative period, he briefly had Saul Bellow as a thesis advisor before transitioning to a pivotal role as the Student Ombudsman.
Post-graduation in 1991, John’s eclectic career took him from critiquing films for the Fresno Bee to spinning humor columns and finally to a pivotal stint at America Online. It was there he, alongside his beloved wife Kristine Ann Blauser, whom he married in 1995, embraced the burgeoning digital frontier. The late ’90s saw them settling in Ohio, a decision coinciding with John’s transition to full-time writing, following his 1998 layoff. Their family life flourished in Bradford, welcoming their daughter Athena Marie, and even their pets occasionally snagged the media spotlight!
Career Highlights
John’s literary debut, Old Man’s War, not only garnered critical acclaim but also sparked discussions of its parallels with Heinlein’s works. What began as an online serialization blossomed into a published masterpiece, setting the stage for a series of thought-provoking novels. Whether it was the humor-laced Agent to the Stars or the engaging sequels like The Ghost Brigades and Zoe’s Tale, John’s ability to intertwine humor, drama, and insightful commentary on the human condition shone brightly. His work, Redshirts, not only entertained but also earned the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Beyond fiction, John’s versatility is evident in his non-fiction endeavors, from demystifying finance in The Rough Guide to Money Online to exploring the cosmos in The Rough Guide to the Universe. His insightful critique on sci-fi cinema in The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies reflects his deep passion for the genre.
A Personal Touch Online
John’s blog, “Whatever,” has been a digital home for his eclectic interests, ranging from politics to the art of writing, since 1998. It’s more than just a blog; it’s a window into his thoughts, a platform for community engagement, and a space that celebrates the convergence of life, art, and everything in between. His candid, engaging online presence has not only garnered a loyal readership but also prestigious accolades, including the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.
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