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John Scalzi
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American science fiction writer (born 1969)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 10 May 1969
- Works
- 122
Top works
- The Tale of the Wicked
- Slow Time Between the Stars
- A Very Scalzi Christmas
- 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years
- חלום האנדרואיד
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Film & TV
Writing · Fairfield, California, USA
Known for
- Bridge to the Other Side — Chief Barone2022
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- 1,061
- Total plays
- 67,131
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John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his novel Redshirts that has won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, writing and politics, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe. <a href="https://www.last.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,531x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,562x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,125x
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Quotes
- “The failure mode of clever is “asshole.””
- “The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.You can’t stop aging. Gene therapies and replacement organs and plastic surgery give it a good fight. But it catches up with you anyway. Get a new lung, and your heart blows a valve. Get a new heart, and your liver swells up to the size of an inflatable kiddie pool. Change out your liver, a stroke gives you a whack. That’s aging’s trump card; they still can’t replace brains.”
- “I had never seen so many old people in one place at one time. Neither had Harry. “It’s like Wednesday morning at the world’s biggest Denny’s,” he said.”
- “What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.”
- “The recruit was Sam McCain; in one of our lunch sessions I recalled Sarah O’Connell describing him as more mouth than brain. Unsurprisingly, he’d been in sales most of his life.”
- “In this universe, experience counts.”
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Described at
John Scalzi - Gaithersburg Book Festival
John Scalzi is one of the most popular sci-fi authors of his generation. His debut, "Old Man's War," won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times best-sellers include "The Last Colony," "Fuzzy Nation," "Redshirts" (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), "The Las
gaithersburgbookfestival.org →For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now… something absolutely impossible. Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives — over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you’d expect, and then to so many places you wouldn’t. John Scalzi is one of the most popular sci-fi authors of his generation. His debut, “Old Man’s War,” won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times best-sellers include “The Last Colony,” “Fuzzy Nation,” “Redshirts” (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), “The Last Emperox,” “The Kaiju Preservation Society” and “Starter Villain.” Material from his blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. He will be presenting “When the Moon Hits Your Eye.”
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