John Scalzi

And now the Denver B-Gates Tattered Cover Bookstore has signed copies of When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Redshirts, and Old Man's War. Go get them!

If you happen to be at Denver's airport anytime soon, there are two signed copies of Kaiju Preservation Society at the C Gates Tattered Cover Bookstore

No you see AI won’t replace jobs it will simply make the jobs easier

Lord I see what Brazil and Serbia have and I want it for myself

I've been a subscriber almost as long as I've been on Al Gore's Internet, and you could be too

I'm traveling to Michigan Thursday to sign/personalize a whole bunch of copies of Monsters of Ohio for @subpress.bsky.social. They still have a few copies left, so it's not too late to get one. If you are outside the US, SubPress ships internationally! Hurry! subterraneanpress.com/scalzi-moo-t...

Happy Monday, everybody! This week, have you considered voting early (if you can) and voting in person (if you can)? It's fun! Try it if you can!

Oh, dear. I had the good fortune to meet him a few times at conventions and had lunch with him once in Australia. Such a lovely fellow and of course an iconic figure in science fiction. RIP.

I'm in Cincinnati the day before because this is all part of my tour. Texas was added at the last minute.

I have a number of books in Thai! It's been a good market for me.

We're still mostly alive!

Absolutely an homage and I'm glad someone found it!

An update from @milehicon.bsky.social: everything has been lovely so far. About to go talk about myself for an hour.

This may be the best picture of me ever taken

I'm going to be busy at @milehicon.bsky.social today, so while I'm away: HEY WRITERS: Tell the class about your latest book and where people can get it!

Fun fact, the picture of me here was taken during one of those "team-building" offsites where hiking around a mountain was meant to bring you closer to your co-workers, but then I got laid off a month later, so. At least I was able to use the photo for a different gig!

Oh, boy, feel this article nymag.com/intelligence...

The hotel bar is playing Blue Nile and I have to say I'm impressed youtu.be/tNgSwtRqLmg

I admit it, I am the mystery fourth candidate for the James Bond gig

wow, no.

THEY ARE FEEDING SACRIFICES TO BLUCIFER

No. My tour is covered by my publisher and most conventions/festivals I go to are as a featured guest, which means my expenses are covered. There are exceptions; I usually pay to go to Worldcon, and sometimes when I travel I pay to upgrade my flight out of economy seating (or to take Krissy).

There's a wasp on this flight, so that's great

Generally no but I'm really trying to work on that

I genuinely did not know how much of my life as an author would involve travel. I imagine one day it will stop involving so much travel and then I will wonder what happened.

I have no idea. Maybe a thousand? It's rare I sign more than three or four at a time

What a surprise, I'm at an airport

When you're working to get chapters to your editor but someone decides that you're done typing for the day (I did some more typing anyway, because clearly I am a monster)

Out now for your reading pleasure, some thoughts from me about the ideas behind my new novel, THE ASTERIST on @scalzi.com's website. The Big Idea: A. T. Sayre whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/21/t... #speclit #booksky

I always think that Marguerite (1907) by Henri Matisse looks like an underground/indie comic book published by Fantagraphics in the 1990s.

It's a beautiful day to vote early (if you can) and in person (if you can)!

I am so entirely thrilled to have When the Moon Hits Your Eye as a Thurber Prize for American Humor semi-finalist this year that I find it difficult to form coherent sentences about it, and YET I HAVE, many in fact, over on my site today: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/21/w...

To the folks pinging me semi-urgently about the PHP situation: a) Thank you! I appreciate your concern. b) My ISP is dealing with it, and patching my domains (among a whole lot of others) as we speak. My web site may go down briefly when this happens. Don't panic! www.wired.com/story/this-i...

If you're in the EU, you have access to both the US and UK versions of the book. There's no material difference to the text in either edition. Pick the one that's the least expensive for you and/or will ship to you the earliest. I will get paid about the same either way.

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WANTON SELF-PROMOTION FOLLOWS Hey! It's only TWO weeks until Monsters of Ohio comes out! Still time to pre-order from your favorite bookseller! And don't forget I'll be going on tour all around the US Midwest, and you can come see me! Dates/places at the link! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/09/17/a...

Because if they're not in compliance with them they are in breach of contract and I get my rights back and they have nothing (or have a stack of books they can no longer sell). I had a foreign publisher who once tried to get around the terms of our contract. It didn't end well for them.

Writing tie-ins is *a real fucking skill* and anyone who sneers at the people who do it can go piss up a rope. You think it's easy to write an entire novel to very specific order on an almost impossibly tight deadline? And have it be satisfying to read? Motherfucker, *you* try it. See how you do.

If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic

This is a sticky situation

Look, we all knew Ramaswamy was a massive piece of shit but apparently he was really worried that we didn't know *just* how massive a piece of shit he was, so, great job, Vivek, you've certainly cleared that one up, haven't you

That’s today! Watch Blindspotting on Netflix!

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.