Book Series Guide

Author guide

John Scalzi

John Scalzi has written professionally since 1991 as a columnist, editor, freelance writer, and novelist. His work ranges from science fiction and nonfiction to consulting on writing, editing, and marketing, and he is especially known for the Old Man's War sequence, Redshirts, and other popular SF novels.

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novel series · ongoing

Old Man's War

Military science fiction following the Colonial Defense Force, interstellar war, and the changing fate of humanity.

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  1. 1 Cover of Old Man's War
    Old Man's War

    Book 1 · novel · 2005

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  2. 2
    Questions for a Soldier

    Book 1.5 · short_story · 2005

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  3. 3 Cover of The Ghost Brigades
    The Ghost Brigades

    Book 2 · novel · 2006

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  4. 4
    The Sagan Diary

    Book 2.5 · novella · 2007

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  5. 5 Cover of The Last Colony
    The Last Colony

    Book 3 · novel · 2007

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  6. 6 Cover of Zoe's Tale
    Zoe's Tale

    Book 4 · novel · 2008

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  7. 7
    After the Coup

    Book 4.5 · short_story · 2010

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  8. 8
    The B-Team

    Book 5.01 · novella · 2013

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  9. 9
    Walk the Plank

    Book 5.02 · short_story · 2013

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  10. 10
    Tales From the Clarke

    Book 5.05 · short_story · 2013

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  11. 11
    The Dog King

    Book 5.07 · short_story · 2013

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  12. 12
    The Observers

    Book 5.09 · short_story · 2013

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  13. 13
    The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads

    Book 5.12 · short_story · 2013

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  14. 14
    Earth Below, Sky Above

    Book 5.13 · novella · 2013

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  15. 15
    The Life of the Mind

    Book 6.1 · novella · 2015

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  16. 16
    This Hollow Union

    Book 6.2 · novella · 2015

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  17. 17
    Can Long Endure

    Book 6.3 · novella · 2015

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  18. 18
    To Stand or Fall

    Book 6.4 · novella · 2015

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  19. 19 Cover of The Shattering Peace
    The Shattering Peace

    Book 7 · novel · 2025

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novel series · complete

The Interdependency

A space-opera sequence about the Flow, a collapsing interstellar transport network, and the empire built around it.

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  1. 1 Cover of The Collapsing Empire
    The Collapsing Empire

    Book 1 · novel · 2017

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  2. 2 Cover of The Consuming Fire
    The Consuming Fire

    Book 2 · novel · 2018

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  3. 3 Cover of The Last Emperox
    The Last Emperox

    Book 3 · novel · 2020

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novel series · unknown

Lock In

Near-future stories shaped by Haden's syndrome and the use of robot bodies.

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  1. 1
    Unlocked

    Book 0.5 · novella · 2014

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  2. 2 Cover of Lock In
    Lock In

    Book 1 · novel · 2001

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  3. 3 Cover of Head On
    Head On

    Book 2 · novel · 2018

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novel series · unknown

The Dispatcher

Stories set in a world where intentional killings are reversed and licensed dispatchers try to keep death at bay.

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  1. 1
    The Dispatcher

    Book 1 · novella · 2016

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  2. 2
    Murder by Other Means

    Book 2 · novella · 2020

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  3. 3
    Travel by Bullet

    Book 3 · novella · 2022

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collection series · unknown

Whatever

Nonfiction collections drawn from Scalzi's Whatever blog.

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  1. 1
    Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

    Book 1 · nonfiction · 2008

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  2. 2
    The Mallet of Loving Correction

    Book 2 · nonfiction · 2013

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  3. 3
    Don't Live for Your Obituary

    Book 3 · nonfiction · 2017

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  4. 4
    Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies

    Book 4 · nonfiction

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Outside the series

Standalone and other books

  1. Cover of Starter Villain
    Starter Villain

    novel · 2023

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  2. Cover of Redshirts
    Redshirts

    novel · 2012

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  3. Cover of The Kaiju Preservation Society
    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    novel · 2022

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  4. Cover of Agent to the Stars
    Agent to the Stars

    novel · 2004

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  5. Cover of The Android's Dream
    The Android's Dream

    novel · 2006

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  6. Cover of Fuzzy Nation
    Fuzzy Nation

    novel · 1996

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  7. The God Engines

    novella · 2009

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  8. Miniatures

    collection · 2016

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  9. Constituent Service

    novella · 2024

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  10. Slow Time Between the Stars

    short_story · 2023

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  11. Cover of When the Moon Hits Your Eye
    When the Moon Hits Your Eye

    novel · 2025

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  12. An Election

    short_story · 2010

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  13. Everything but the Squeal

    short_story · 2008

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  14. Muse of Fire

    short_story · 2012

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  15. The Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One

    short_story · 2011

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