Scalzi John (EN)
Страницы автора на других языках и псевдонимы:
Скальци Джон
Средняя оценка:
8.88
(15)
Пол: мужской
Язык страницы автора: Английский
Домашняя страница:
http://scalzi.com/
Дата рождения:
10 May 1969
Место рождения:
Fairfield, California, U.S.
ID автора:
26460
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John Michael Scalzi II is an American science fiction author, online writer, and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man's War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, where he has written on a number of topics since 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2008 based predominantly on that blog, which he has also used for several prominent charity drives. His novel Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He has written non-fiction books and columns on diverse topics such as finance, video games, films, astronomy, writing and politics, and served as a creative consultant for the TV series Stargate Universe.
Scalzi was born in Fairfield, California, one of three children to a single mother, and grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs of Covina, Glendora, Azusa, and San Dimas. He is of Italian descent; his grandfather immigrated from Italy to the United States as a young child. His childhood was spent in poverty, an experience that inspired him to write his most famous essay, "Being Poor." He attended the Webb School of California, a boarding school in Claremont, on a scholarship. One of his classmates was blogger and journalist Josh Marshall.
Scalzi earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1991. Scalzi's thesis advisor, for a brief time, was Saul Bellow. Scalzi abandoned his course of study with Bellow after he was elected Student Ombudsman of the University. Ted Cohen, a philosophy professor, became his next thesis advisor, but Scalzi graduated without completing his thesis project. During his 1989–1990 school year, Scalzi was the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Maroon. He began writing professionally in 1990, while a college student, as a freelance writer for the Chicago Sun-Times.
After graduating, Scalzi became a corporate consultant and wrote opinion columns and film reviews for the Fresno Bee. In 1996, he and his family moved to the Washington, D.C. area after he was hired as the in-house writer and editor at AOL. He was laid off in 1998, and since then he has been a full-time freelance writer and author.
Scalzi was elected president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2010. He was the only nominee on the ballot. He had previously run as a write-in candidate in 2007, challenging the sole ballot nominee that year, but was not successful. After his term ended in 2013 he did not run for reelection.
He garnered significant media attention by taping raw bacon to his cat "Ghlaghghee" in September 2006. As a result of the coverage, Scalzi began maintaining a web repository for links to "All Things Bacon" on the Whatever site.
Написанные книги
| Заголовок | Оценка | Добавлена | Жанры | Серии | Язык | Издана | Написана | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
After the Coup |
10.0 (1) | 0 | 28 октября 2010 18:22 | Научная фантастика | 6 | EN | 2008 | ||
Agent to the Stars |
10.0 (1) | 0 | 28 октября 2010 18:22 | Научная фантастика | 77 | EN | 2005 | ||
Fuzzy Nation |
9.00 (1) | 0 | 22 апреля 2014 17:52 | Научная фантастика | 58 | EN | 2011 | ||
Lock in |
8.50 (2) | 0 | 9 марта 2015 12:44 | Ужасы и мистика, Научная фантастика | 57 | EN | 2014 | ||
Old Man's War |
9.00 (1) | 0 | 28 октября 2010 18:22 | Научная фантастика | 65 | Old Man's War #0001 | EN | 2005 | |
The Android's Dream |
9.00 (1) | 0 | 28 октября 2010 18:22 | Научная фантастика | 82 | EN | 2006 | ||
The Ghost Brigades |
9.00 (1) | 0 | 28 октября 2010 18:22 | Научная фантастика | 70 | Old Man's War #0002 | EN | 2006 | |
The God Engines |
6.00 (3) | 0 | 21 апреля 2014 10:24 | Научная фантастика, Космическая фантастика, Ужасы и мистика, Фэнтези | 19 | EN | 2009 | ||
The Human Division |
8.00 (1) | 0 | 21 апреля 2014 04:50 | Космическая фантастика, Научная фантастика | 103 | Old Man's War #0005 | EN | 2013 | |
The Last Colony |
9.00 (1) | 0 | 26 октября 2010 08:59 | Боевая фантастика | 66 | EN | 2007 | ||
The Sagan Diary |
10.0 (1) | 0 | 28 октября 2010 18:22 | Научная фантастика | 9 | Old Man's War | EN | 2007 | |
Zoe`s Tale |
9.00 (1) | 0 | 26 октября 2010 08:59 | Боевая фантастика | 69 | EN | 2008 |