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Wait, don't I recognize that name? Wait a second... This is THE John Scalzi? When I was a kid I pulled a paperback off of my dad's bookshelf, Old Man's War. Great, take your brain out trashy sci fi, and I mean that in the most positive way possible, it left a big impression on me. Incredible writer, cool that he is still around and has a blog.

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He's not only still around, he still writes awesome books.

But yeah, I too was reading without noticing, until I came to the sentence "None of the Scalzis are particularly religious", and thought "wait, Scalzi like John Scalzi? It's not... It is?!"

Another old man’s war series book is going to be released this year

on 9/16 "The Shattering Peace"

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765389190/theshatteringpe...

>take your brain out trashy sci fi, and I mean that in the most positive way possible

that's the guy. he's got a new book coming out this month, and is a fun follow on social media too (now on bluesky). i feel like he would be flattered by your description.

Seconded - https://bsky.app/profile/scalzi.com is one of the more interesting feeds on the site.

He is also one of the authors that (almost) all his eBooks sold on Google Play are without DRM.

> When I was a kid [...] Old Man's War

Well, THAT just made me feel like an old man.

Same -- I still think of Scalzi as a new(ish) SF writer since he started publishing after I was an adult SF reader. Woof, time marches on!

Oh wow, i never would have made the connection. 'Lock In' was one of my favorite books growing up.

You're in for a treat if you haven't read him since OMW. He's one of the more prolific "popular SF" writers around, has won a ton of awards, and usually has a book out about every year or so.

The Collapsing Empire series is particularly good.

Though the Deus Ex Machina is indeed a Deus Ex Machina, even when signposted.

Yes, that's the guy and he has written a lot of good sci-fi since then. He's pretty active on Mastodon too.

Yep, MetaFilter’s own jscalzi

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