John Scalzi

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  • Bibliography:
    60 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2005
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Dispatcher

1 - The Dispatcher (Jun-2017)
2 - Murder by Other Means (May-2021)
3 - Travel by Bullet (May-2023)

End of All Things

1 - The Life of the Mind (Jun-2015)
2 - This Hollow Union (Jun-2015)
3 - Can Long Endure (Jun-2015)
4 - To Stand or Fall (Jun-2015)

The Human Division

1 - The B-Team (Jan-2013)
2 - Walk the Plank (Jan-2013)
3 - We Only Need the Heads (Feb-2013)
4 - A Voice in the Wilderness (Feb-2013)
5 - Tales From the Clarke (Feb-2013)
6 - The Back Channel (Feb-2013)
7 - The Dog King (Mar-2013)
8 - The Sound of Rebellion (Mar-2013)
9 - The Observers (Mar-2013)
10 - This Must Be the Place (Mar-2013)
11 - A Problem of Proportion (Apr-2013)
12 - The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads (Apr-2013)
13 - Earth Below, Sky Above (Apr-2013)

Interdependency

1 - The Collapsing Empire (Mar-2017)
2 - The Consuming Fire // The Widening (Oct-2018)
3 - The Last Emperox (Apr-2020)

Lock In

1 - Lock in (Sep-2014)
2 - Head On (Apr-2018)

An Old Man's War Novel

1 - Old Man's War (Jan-2005)
2 - The Ghost Brigades (Mar-2006)
3 - The Last Colony (Apr-2007)
4 - Zoe's Tale (Aug-2008)
5 - The Human Division (May-2013)
6 - The End of All Things (Aug-2015)

Shadow War of the Night Dragons

1 - The Dead City: Prologue (May-2012)

Book List in Order: 60 titles

  • Old Man's War

    An Old Man's War Novel - 1

    John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce--and alien r...

  • Agent to the Stars

    From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner, John Scalzi, a gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satireThe space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one...

  • Questions for a Soldier

  • The Ghost Brigades

    An Old Man's War Novel - 2

    The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totall...

  • The Android's Dream

    SAVING THE PLANET, ONE SHEEP AT A TIME A human diplomat kills his alien counterpart. Earth is on the verge of war with a vastly superior alien race. A lone man races against time and a host of enemies to find the one object that can save our plane...

  • The Sagan Diary

    Fans of John Scalzi's "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that universe, told from the point of view of one of the series' most intriguing characters. Subterranean Press is proud to publish The Sagan Diary, a long nove...

  • The Last Colony

    An Old Man's War Novel - 3

    John Perry, the hero of John Scalzi's bestselling Old Man's War, has retired with his wife and daughter to one of humanity’s many colonies. It's a good life, but something's . . . missing. When John and Jane are asked to lead a new colony world, th...

  • Zoe's Tale

    An Old Man's War Novel - 4

    How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match...

  • Metatropolis

    in Metatropolis

    Five original tales set in a shared urban future -- from some of the hottest young writers in modern SFMore than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers -- Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Ka...



  • Utere Nihil non Extra Quiritationem Suis

    in Metatropolis

    Five original tales set in a shared urban future―from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF

    More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers―Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay ...

  • Judge Sn Goes Golfing

    John Scalzi visits the universe of his bestselling novel The Android's Dream for this exclusive short story, featuring fan favorite character Judge Nugan Bufan Sn -- a brilliant alien jurist whose misanthropy and lack of social graces is matched only...

  • The God Engines

    Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this -- and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain t...

  • Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

    On September 13, 1998, John Scalzi sat down in front of his computer to write the first entry in his blog Whatever--and changed the history of the Internet as we know it today.What, you're not swallowing that one? Okay, fine: He started writing Whate...

  • After the Coup

    In a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy -- when possible -- is important. So being a Colonial Union officer attached to an interplanetary diplomatic mission sometimes means taking a fall. Literally....

  • The President's Brain is Missing

    The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?...

  • Fuzzy Nation

    Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting an...

  • How I Proposed to My Wife

  • An Election

    When his city council representative is hit by a bus, David Sawyer decides to run for the newly-vacated seat. One problem: He's a human in an alien-majority district that hasn't voted in a human in half a century. Can Sawyer pull it off in a race tha...

  • The Tale of the Wicked

    Captain Michael Obwije of the Confederation Armed Forces has been hunting a Tarin battle cruiser in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. But when he orders his own ship in for the killing blow, the hot pursuit turns into a potentially more dangerous si...



  • The Dead City: Prologue

    Shadow War of the Night Dragons - 1

    Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, now a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story....

  • Redshirts

    Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology lab...

  • The B-Team

    The Human Division - 1

    Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union...

  • Walk the Plank

    The Human Division - 2

    Wildcat colonies are illegal, unauthorized and secret -- so when an injured stranger shows up at the wildcat colony New Seattle, the colony leaders are understandably suspicious of who he is and what he represents. His story of how he’s come to the...

  • The Back Channel

    The Human Division - 6

    The Conclave is a confederation of four hundred alien races -- many of whom would like to see the Colonial Union, and the humans inside of it, blasted to extinction. To avoid a conflict that neither side can afford, Conclave leader General Tarsem Gau...

  • Tales From the Clarke

    The Human Division - 5

    Captain Sophia Coloma of the Clarke has a simple task: Ferry around representatives from Earth in an aging spaceship that the Colonial Union hopes to sell to them. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and Coloma discovers the ship she’s showing of...

  • A Voice in the Wilderness

    The Human Division - 4

    Albert Birnbaum was once one of the biggest political talk show hosts around, but these days he’s watching his career enter a death spiral. A stranger offers a solution to his woes, promising to put him back on top. It’s everything Birnbaum wants...

  • We Only Need the Heads

    The Human Division - 3

    CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has been loaned out to a CDF platoon tasked with secretly removing an unauthorized colony of humans on an alien world. Colonial Ambassador Abumwe has been ordered to participate in final negotiations with an alien race the...

  • The Dog King

    The Human Division - 7

    The seventh episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. CDF Lie...

  • The Observers

    The Human Division - 9

    The ninth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. In an eff...



  • The Sound of Rebellion

    The Human Division - 8

    The eighth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. The Colo...

  • This Must Be the Place

    The Human Division - 10

    The tenth episode of "The Human Division, " John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling "Old Man's War." Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of "The Human Division" will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. Co...

  • Earth Below, Sky Above

    The Human Division - 13

    The final episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. At last, ...

  • The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads

    The Human Division - 12

    The twelfth episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. United ...

  • A Problem of Proportion

    The Human Division - 11

    The eleventh episode of The Human Division, John Scalzi's new thirteen-episode novel in the world of his bestselling Old Man's War. Beginning on January 15, 2013, a new episode of The Human Division will appear in e-book form every Tuesday. A secr...

  • The Human Division

    An Old Man's War Novel - 5

    Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race. The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For...

  • The Mallet of Loving Correction

    'In a very real sense, Whatever is my life's work; it's fifteen years (so far) of me thinking about what's going on in my life and in my world.' --John Scalzi What sort of idiot spends fifteen years writing a blog? New York Times Bestselling auth...

  • Muse of Fire

    Ben Patton is a genuis, a mathematician and a man on the verge of a scientific discovery that could change the world -- if the math he's invented for it works. Ben's secret to his success: A muse, Hestia, who helps him, cares for him and in many ways...

  • Lock in

    Lock In - 1

    A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever an...

  • Unlocked

    In the near future--and sooner than you think--a new virus will sweep the globe. At first it will look like the flu, but then we will discover there is something else about it...something we weren't expecting. It will change society forever. No, t...



  • Can Long Endure

    End of All Things - 3

    Part Three of the four parts of The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the bestselling Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division. They signed up to defend humans from hostile aliens, but this group of Colonial Union soldiers f...

  • The Life of the Mind

    End of All Things - 1

    A down-on-his-luck Colonial Union starship pilot finds himself pressed into serving a harsh master-in a mission against the CU. But his kidnappers may have underestimated his knowledge of the ship that they have, quite literally, bound him to pilotin...

  • This Hollow Union

    End of All Things - 2

    Part Two of the four parts of The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the bestselling Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division. Desperate times call for desperate measures. And for the multi-species Conclave, desperate times h...

  • To Stand or Fall

    End of All Things - 4

    Back on Earth, the beginning and end of all things. The nations of humanity's home planet have parted ways with the starfaring Colonial Union, the human interstellar empire originally established to keep the home planet free. The Union needs to regai...

  • The End of All Things

    An Old Man's War Novel - 6

    Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess pop...

  • Everything but the Squeal

    In the not-so-distant future, life is good... if you’re one of the lucky few to live in the new, ecologically-minded city-states that dot the landscape. Outside their walls, in the “wilds” -- the rotting suburbs and exurbs of America -- things ...

  • Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi

    The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four a...

  • The Collapsing Empire

    Interdependency - 1

    Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible―until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow...

  • The Dispatcher

    The Dispatcher - 1

    One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone -- 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispa...

  • Head On

    Lock In - 2

    John Scalzi returns with HEAD ON, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed LOCK IN. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, HEAD ON brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and ...



  • The Consuming Fire // The Widening

    Interdependency - 2

    The Interdependency, humanity’s interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civil...

  • Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies

    “‘Virtue signaling’ is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other.” -- John ScalziFor twenty years ...

  • A Very Scalzi Christmas

    Deck the halls with boughs of holly! ’Tis the season…for Santa’s lawyer to talk about the legal status of the workshop elves, for Christmas to arrive in an unexpected month, and for the innkeeper at the nativity to spill the beans about what r...

  • The Last Emperox

    Interdependency - 3

    The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The collapse of The Flow, the interstella...

  • Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology

    The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy(R) award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and D...

  • Murder by Other Means

    The Dispatcher - 2

    From Hugo and Audie Award-winning author John Scalzi comes an exciting sequel to the New York Times best-selling, number one Audible hit The Dispatcher, performed by the incomparable Zachary Quinto.Welcome to the new world, in which murder is all but...

  • The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food de...

  • Travel by Bullet

    The Dispatcher - 3

    02/20/2023Hugo Award winner Scalzi has a good deal of fun in his hard-boiled third Dispatcher adventure (after The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means), returning to an alternate present in which people who are murdered reappear in a place they fee...

  • Starter Villain

    Following the bestselling The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi returns with Starter Villain, another unique sci-fi caper set in the strangest of all worlds, present-day Earth.Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more com...

  • You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop

  • When the Moon Hits Your Eye

    New York Times bestseller John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your EyeThe moon has turned into cheese.Now humanity has to deal with it.For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment t...

Award-Winning Books by John Scalzi

The Collapsing Empire
2018 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Fuzzy Nation
2012 Audies -- Science Fiction
The Last Colony
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
The Last Emperox
2020 Dragon Award -- Science Fiction Novel
Lock in
2015 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
Redshirts
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Science Fiction Novel
2013 Hugo Award -- Novel
2013 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Starter Villain
2024 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults


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John Scalzi has published 60 books.

The next book by John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by John Scalzi, Old Man's War, was published in January 2005.

Yes. John Scalzi has 7 series.
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