John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His debut Old Man's War won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers includeThe Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, his most recent novel Lock In, and also Redshirts, which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog The Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com) has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.
A mix of Starship Troopers and Universal Soldier, Ghost evokes awakening, betrayal, and combat in the best military sci-fi tradition. Entertainment Weekly Scalzi's prose harkens back to the Golden Age of science fiction while still remaining fresh and vibrant Strange Horizons Like Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades is thinking fans' space opera ... The Ghost Brigades maintains Scalzi's standing as one of SF's most rewarding purveyors of thrilling, gut-wrenching, and thoughtful space opera SF Reviews If anyone stands at the core of the American science fiction tradition at the moment, it is Scalzi. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction A mix of Starship Troopers and Universal Soldier, Ghost evokes awakening, betrayal, and combat in the best military sci-fi tradition. Entertainment Weekly Scalzi's prose harkens back to the Golden Age of science fiction while still remaining fresh and vibrant Strange Horizons Like Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades is thinking fans' space opera ... The Ghost Brigades maintains Scalzi's standing as one of SF's most rewarding purveyors of thrilling, gut-wrenching, and thoughtful space opera SF Reviews If anyone stands at the core of the American science fiction tradition at the moment, it is Scalzi. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction