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John Scalzi

출생: May 10, 1969 – Fairfield, California, United States

John Scalzi is an American science fiction writer known for witty, accessible novels spanning military SF, satire, and space opera. His notable books include Old Man’s War, Redshirts, and The Collapsing Empire. A New York Times bestselling author, he won the Hugo Award for Redshirts and is a prominent voice in contemporary SF.

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John Scalzi, born on May 10, 1969, in Fairfield, California, grew up largely in Southern California, attended the Webb Schools, and studied philosophy at the University of Chicago. Before fiction made him widely known, he had already built a professional writing life, freelancing for the Chicago Sun-Times and New City and then starting full-time at the Fresno Bee in September 1991. That journalism background helps explain the speed and clarity that became hallmarks of his later fiction and essays. ((https://whatever.scalzi.com/about/a-brief-biography-of-john-scalzi/))

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The failure mode of clever is “asshole.”
-The Failure Mode of Clever
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Dudes: Cut that shit out. You’re fucking with my livelihood
-A Creator’s Note to “Gatekeepers”
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I mean, I do enjoy pie
-The Official John Scalzi Social Media FAQ
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It’s mostly useless for learning how to write professionally — which is to say, learning how to produce pay copy that editors will buy
-Scalzi the Blog Killer
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In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is
-Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is
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I don’t need to destroy a watershed to write a novel
-10 Thoughts On “AI,” February Edition
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Short of writing hateful material, here in this capitalist hellscape, a gig is a gig
-There Is No Selling Out Anymore
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"John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today"

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"John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun, intelligent, and irreverent"

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