2005–2006
1,369 posts
2006 795
December 2006
- Goodbye 2006
- A Fun Little Statistic for You
- Kim Ng
- My Favorite Albums of 2006
- I Eated It!
- Saddam Hanged
- Books to Spend Your Gift Cards On
- And Now, On an Entirely Self-Serving Note
- World Domination via Blog Marketing: Don’t Hold Your Breath
- Resolutions for 2007
- Professional Rejection
- Android’s Dream Accolade
- My 2007 Literary Output: A Review
- 2006: The Year in Athena Pictures
- Rembrandt, Up Close
- A Fine Selection of 2006 Sunsets
- Gerald Ford
- All Caught Up (I Think)
- Starship Troopers, The Movie: A Review
- 2006 Author Interview Archive
- Comment Moderation, Etc
- Modeling Only the Finest in Modern Sheep Wear
- Merry Christmas
- NYT Review Fallout
- Whatever Best of 2006
- Blindsight 2nd Printing; TAD Review in Flint Journal Review
- Greetings From the Politburo
- Exit Interview From the Seventh Year
- On the New York Times Sunday Book Review Piece
- Last Chance
- Oh Noes! I Caught Teh Izlam!
- Happy Family
- One of the Great Moral Quandaries of Our Time
- Are Short Stories Necessary?
- On Carl Sagan
- Congratulations Chad Orzel!
- Unveiling My New Signature Quote
- Two Upcoming Events of Interest
- Joseph Barbera
- Housekeeping Notes
- Two Entirely Unrelated Thoughts
- Meet the John Perrys
- Peter Watts’ Vampire Lecture
- From the “What Does This Mean” File
- Writing The Sagan Diary
- Just How Terrifyingly Tuned I Am to the Early 80s
- Bleep. Bloop. Zap.
- You Can Get This Book For Free. You Should Buy It.
- First Novels First Or Not
- Ugh and Crap
- How I Know It’s The Holidays
- OMW & TGB Collector’s Editions
- OMW & TGB Collector’s Editions
- OMW & TGB Collector’s Editions
- Confusing the Capitalists
- Top 51 Personal Blogs in SF/F, December 2006 Edition
- Leslie Harpold
- Fiddly Bits, 12/12/06
- Apocalypto Now
- It’s the Little Victories That Mean the Most
- As Regards The Passing of a Notorious South American
- More “Sagan Diary” Goodness
- Please to Enjoy This Seasonal Photo Set, or Else
- Proof, Damn You
- The Sagan Diary Cover Art
- And Now This Startling Admission
- And Now This Critical News Flash
- And Now This Critical News Flash
- Fear My Gaping Maw
- Fear My Gaping Maw
- Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
- An Interview With Sean Williams
- Things I’m Learning As A Writer
- Blue Mars
- Kill Me Now, Ho Ho Ho
- An Interview With Sarah Hoyt
- An Interview With Sarah Hoyt
- Spammity Spam Spam
- An Interview With Charles Stross
- An Interview With Karen Traviss
- SF Snark?
- Audio Versions of My Books: Available or Not?
- Pure Insanity
- Empire, Elections and SF Promotional Philosophy
- The Last Cat Picture of the Day, I Swear
- An Interview With Karl Schroeder
- Fun With Teh Catz
- I Has a Karma
- Be My Musical Guinea Pigs
- Thump Pound Thump Pound Thump Pound CRASH
- What I Suspect Will Be the Last of These for 2006
- Jonathan Coulton Interview Excerpts (Which Are Actually Far Longer Than the Interview Itself)
- Arrrr! Or Is It “Yarrrrr!”? I Always Get the Two Confused
- Oh, Dear
November 2006
- Cover Me: A Musical Open Thread
- Oh My God! It’s the Zombie Patrick Henry!
- Must. Not. Destroy. Computer.
- A Small and Disturbing Moment in Home Maintenance
- Some Good Advice
- That Tinkling Sound You Hear is the Sound of a TV Advertising Executive Earning Her Wings, and Then Plummeting Straight Into Hell
- For When You’re Shopping Your Brains Out: A Bookseller Pimp Thread
- Your GNR Report
- John Scalzi’s Culinary Discovery of the Day
- A Special Edition of The Ghost Brigades
- Head Trauma Can Be Fun!
- Do you Know Where You Are? You’re In Middle Age, Baby. And You’re Gonna Die
- A Little Respect for Pierce Brosnan
- A Delightful Holiday Reheat
- New Book Announcement
- Random Thoughts Early on a Thanksgiving Morning
- The Really Incredibly Clueless Opinion Column of the Day…
- Reviews and Etc
- Bright Red Clouds
- Robert Altman, RIP
- New Link for Subterranean Magazine #4
- One of Those Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus Sorts of Things
- Phun With Philcon
- Checking In, 11/18/06
- In Philly
- Ha on You: An Open Pimp Thread
- Two Book Thingies Of Possibly Passing Interest
- Hebrew OMW is Here
- Official PlayStation Magazine, RIP
- Busy, Busy
- Subterranean Magazine Online, and a Sale
- On Theocracies
- In Progress
- The Question for the Day
- The Columbus Reading
- Philcon Schedule and 2007 Convention and Appearance Thoughts
- A Picture of Interest Only to True Blog Dorks
- Heckuva Job, Rummy.
- Election Observations 2006
- Because I Haven’t Talked About Me Enough Recently
- Thank You [Insert Higher Power Here]
- The “Hell Yes, I Voted” Thread
- A Small Plea to the Right: Vote Left in 2006
- Here’s How Nuts It’s Getting Out There
- Monica Schroeder — So Far
- An Interesting Editorial
- One More Thing
- One More Thought Before My Brain Once More Collapses Like a Flan in a Cupboard
- Catching Up on the Female Domination of Publishing
- Catching Up on Incompetent War Administration
- Catching Up on Evangelical Licentiousness
- Status Update Update
- Status Report
- University of Chicago Magazine Article
- A Real Live Luke 6:42 Moment for Evangelical Christianity
- Election Analysis? Already?
- The Last Colony Cover Art?
- In-Store Promotion
- TAD Giveaway
- Coke Zero Haytas
- Wednesday Author Interview: Catherynne M. Valente
- My Appalling Lunch
- Pale Autumn
October 2006
- Don’t Fear The Reaper
- The Most Unintentionally Funny Bit of Political Spittle Flinging You’ll Read All Day
- This Picture Has Got Everything You Need, or, Hey! My Book is Out!
- The Occam’s Razor Theory of Literary Rejection
- TAD Photo Fun
- Computer and Steve Brust Geekery
- Sunsets and Open Threads
- Insta-review
- Some Encouraging News For Fans of the Separation of Powers
- Infinite Repeating Android’s Dreams, 10/28/06
- How I’m Voting, or, Abort & Reload
- Mmmm… Rude-osity
- Infinite Repeating Android’s Dreams
- An Uxorial Portrait
- Black and White
- You’ve Been Reaped! Adorably!
- New Jersey, Being Subtle
- What? No Politics?
- SCI FI Interview re: Android’s Dream
- Thank You Shelley Eshkar
- When A Scalzi Sings
- Doomed to Victory!
- Moving Target
- Another Auction for the John M. Ford Book Endowment
- The Blessed Gift of Self-Censorship
- Another Question for the Geeks
- Calling All Geeks
- Androids in the Wild
- Instabounce: Still Working
- Wednesday Author Interview: Cherie Priest
- An Observation That Probably Doesn’t Merit Its Own Entry, But Damn It, It’s My Blog and I Can Do What I Want, So Stop Looking at Me Like That
- An Interesting New Wrinkle in the Ohio Governor’s Race
- Posing For the Cover of Her First Punk Rock Album
- The (Hopefully) Endless Cycle
- What I’m Up Against
- Two Cool Things
- The Case For RSS Feeds
- Meanwhile, In Ohio…
- TAD Review on SF Signal
- Philcon Update
- Things I Wasn’t Expecting to Get in the Mail, Example Number One
- Quick Auction Update; Answering “Sagan” Questions
- Eternal Spamnation
- “The Android’s Dream” Review in Booklist
- Server Woes
- Lucasphobia
- Lucasphobia
- The Lie of Star Wars as Entertainment
- The Ghost Brigades Currently Sold Out on Amazon
- The Android’s Dream Review at SFRevu
- The Last Colony Auction Winner; Announcing “The Sagan Diary”
- Sunset, 10/09/06
- Sunset, 10/09/06
- Tidbitty Goodness, 10/9/06
- Who’s Next?
- Another Travel Day
- Mmmmm… ARCy Goodness.
- Blatheration for a Saturday
- Gaaaah, Redux
- Gaaaaaah: An Open Thread
- Wednesday Author Interview: Mark Budz
- A Significant Event in the “Last Colony” Auction
- Mark Foley’s Upcoming Personal Disclosures
- Steal This Auction Idea
- Steal This Auction Idea
- Fiddly Bits, 10/3/06
- “The Last Colony” Auction: To Benefit the John M Ford Book Endowment
- “The Last Colony” Auction: To Benefit the John M Ford Book Endowment
- “The Last Colony” Auction Comment and Discussion Thread
- Just to Taunt All Y’all
- Expect a Homeland Security Threat Level Ramp-Up Sometime Today
- Pimping Cherie Priest and Clarkesworld Magazine
- News From the World of Scalzis
September 2006
- Another Fiddly Widget
- “Big Posts” — How They Work
- Here, Amuse Yourself
- Tales of Horror From Years Gone By
- Tales of Horror From Years Gone By
- On Moral Cowardice
- You Little Witch
- Speaking of the Technorati Top 100…
- Little Thought-Like Emanations
- Wednesday Author Interview: Jo Walton
- Goodbye to the Free Phone
- How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie
- The Winner of the “Why I Deserve an ‘Android’s Dream’ ARC” Contest
- Re: That Contest Thing
- Sometimes I Live in a Maxfield Parrish Painting
- TAD Review at SFReviews.net
- The Old Media Toilers Help Themselves to a Heaping Slice of Schadenfreude Pie
- John M. Ford
- Weekend Update
- Publishers Weekly on The Android’s Dream
- Deliver Me From Temptation, Temptation Being Amazon
- Linky McLinkerson
- Why I Deserve an “Android’s Dream” ARC: A Contest
- Hugo Chavez Had It Wrong
- Public Speaking; Various Questions
- The Popping Sound You Hear Comes From Conservative Heads Exploding Like Eggs in a Microwave
- Thoughts on The Last Colony
- Where I’ll Be and What I’m Doing 9/20/06
- New Look 9/19/06
- Avast! Here Be a Scurvy Lass
- The Last Colony — Done!
- TLC Final Push
- The Other Cats Can Be So Cruel
- Local Newspaper Love
- Somewhere Popeye is Screaming in Terror and Confusion
- Step Away From the Political Blogs
- Thinking About The God Delusion
- Eight Years of Whatever
- Heading Back — An Open Thread
- Go, Senate Republicans, Go
- Denver at Sunrise
- Pretty Much the Last Thing I’m Going to Say on Bacon and Cats for a While, Honest
- Two Quick Requests
- In Retrospect, I Suppose It Was Inevitable
- A Lesson on Teh Intarweebs
- Farked
- Clearly You People Thought I Was Kidding
- One Man’s Agenda
- Capped Off
- Marketing Envy
- Clarion Moves
- 9/11 +5
- Follow-up on “Don’t Piss Off Krissy”
- Stealing the Troll Food
- Don’t Piss Off Krissy
- Things That Ought Really Not Have to Have Been Said in a Congressional Hearing, Yet Alas Had to Be
- Don’t Download This Song
- September/October Appearances
- Aaaaaaaaah.
- Some Perspective on Being a “New Writer”
- Open Thread: “Facts”
- How to Make an Author Feel Special, Book Seller Division
- Signed Editions of OMW & TGB, With Free (US) Shipping!
- Signed Editions of OMW & TGB, With Free (US) Shipping!
- The Miracle of Teh Intarweebs
- A Matter of “When” Not “If”
- Sunset 09/03/06
- Promoting the Cause of the Campbell (Tiara)
- Some SFWA Inside Pool
- Looking Back on “Being Poor”
- In Other News, Spin Won The Best Novel Hugo This Year
- A Minor Domestic Incident, As Related By Krissy
- On Mail
- Coffee Shop; Soliciting Subterranean Magazine Comments
- If I Ever Teach College Students…
August 2006
- Reading Brought Back from Worldcon, Plus Book-Pimpery
- מלחמת האדם הזקן
- Word Choices
- The Scalzi Award
- “Where Has All the Science Fiction Gone?”
- Something for Future Hugo Finalists to Consider
- Apropos of Nothing in Particular
- Blast From the Past
- Back to School 2006
- How I Spent My Summer Vacation
- About The Campbell Tiara
- Quick and Possibly Incoherent Thoughts on Awards and Etc
- Look What I Got
- Dwarf Planets
- Whatevr 2.0
- Representin’ for the SF Publishing Hotties, Yo
- Incidentally —
- In Today’s Episode of “Those Activist Courts”!
- Reeking With Plutessence
- If Only I Had Known
- Pluton?
- A Special Message From Scott “Pluto Hayta” Westerfeld
- A Special Message for Scott “Pluto Hayta” Westerfeld
- Peapod Classics
- Justine on No Control
- Commenting Note
- Three things, 8/11/06
- International Astronomical Union to the Pluto Haters: Suck It
- A Brief Moment of Recognition for the People Who Comment
- A San Diego Thing
- First Chapter of Wings to the Kingdom
- Follow-up on Crimes of Fanfic
- Wednesday Author Interview: Naomi Kritzer
- A Reminder
- Lieberman in Exile
- Crimes of Fanfic
- TAD ARC
- Calling all Computer Geeks
- The Tragedy of Orthodoxy
- News That Makes Me Wish I Already Had My Schadenfreude.us Site Up and in Full Effect, Yo
- Daily SF/Writing Blog Reading List
- How To Make Your Very Own Ice Cream Headache
- World Fantasy Nominations & Android’s Dream Artwork
- World Fantasy Nominations & Android’s Dream Artwork
- Your Reading Assignment For Friday
- More Sunsets
- Various Bits of Bookpimpery
- From the “What the Hell?” File
- On the Best Artist Hugo Award
- Sunset 08/02/06
- The Forces Of Rationality Triumph, Undoubtedly Temporarily
- Re: Mel Gibson:
- Your Hugo/Campbell Blatheration Thread
- Back in the Day
- My LACon IV Schedule
July 2006
- Tidbitty Goodness
- Coffee Shop Rescheduled
- One Last Hugo Plug
- Athena Giving You The Word, Fresh For ’06, Sucka; Plus, a Blogging Self-Pimp Thread
- Because Apparently I’m Just a Chatty Cathy…
- Cincinnati/Covington Appearance
- And Now, Another Exclusive Sneak Preview of The Last Colony You’ll Remember For the Rest of Your Days!!!
- Wednesday Author Interview: Ellen Kushner
- Did I Mention: House For Rent?
- Don’t Stop Believin’, Man!
- Interview in Some Fantastic
- Yeah, I’m a Dork
- Every Night the ACLU Lawyer Will Have to Come Home and Scrub Scrub Scrub
- The Value of (Long) Fiction Online
- Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
- NPR Does SF
- How Not To Market to Bloggers, Redux
- Day of Play
- Foil-Stamped and Embossed For Your Pleasure
- La Guerra Del Viejo
- What to Call Me
- How (And How Not) To Market To Me When I’m in Blogger Mode
- Friendpimping 7/19/06
- Die Movable Type 3.3 Die
- Hello, Wisconsin!
- A Telling Sign Things Are Not Going Well in the Marriage
- Geek Loser
- Danger! Danger!
- The Shit Bounce
- And Now, a Special Sneak Preview of The Last Colony You’ll Talk About For Years to Come!
- Agent to the Stars on “Unshelved”
- Discussion Topic
- Quick Change
- Bits and Pieces 7/15/06
- Black Holes & Revelations
- Black Holes & Revelations
- Black Holes & Revelations
- Note to Worldcon Members: Vote, Damn It
- Athena Mix ’06
- The Missus
- When Ministers Say Goddamned Stupid Things
- Wednesday Author Interview: Alan DeNiro
- The Best SF Book Art Advice You’ll Probably Ever Get
- Insipid Thinking
- Two Points About Gitmo
- Speculative Literature Foundation’s Mentorship Program
- 20 Epics
- Jiggity Jig
- Readercon Wrapup
- The Feminism of Old Man’s War
- The Top 50 Personal Blogs in SF/F, v. 1.0
- A Sample Chapter of The Ghost Brigades
- Book Report
- Music to Slaughter Aliens By
- The Prodigal Kitty
- What I’ll Be Doing at Readercon
June 2006
- Say Goodnight, Gracie
- SCOTUS to POTUS: RTFM
- On Tonight’s Episode of “Those Crazy Clones!”
- Jim Baen, 1943 – 2006
- Clouds and Rainbows 06/28/06
- Also, Now That I’m Thinking About It…
- The Blabbering Masses
- Author Interview: David Louis Edelman
- Back to the Amendment Junkpile
- Subterranean Magazine #4 Update
- An Unfathomable Cavalcade of Riches
- Re: Flag Burning Amendment
- Because I Am a Bad Bad Person…
- And Now The Bad News
- John Scalzi: Egotistical Toady-Loving Asshole?
- Testify and Amen
- The Great Book Triage of 2006
- Why There Are No Great Video Game Critics (Yet)
- New Favorite Photoshop Effect
- You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
- Melonhead
- Before and After
- Some People a Helmet Wouldn’t Help
- Selection Bias
- My Progeny, Her Self
- Eleven Years
- A Tiny Tiny Geek Moment
- Friend-pimping Stephen King
- Why I Don’t Argue With My College Girlfriend
- Jim Baen
- Preserve This
- Nanoarmor!
- Girl on a Swing
- Presidential Oops
- Wednesday Author Interview: Pamela Ribon
- Athena on Flag Day
- Writing Novels One Novel at a Time
- The Dewey Donation System
- Subterranean Magazine To Press
- Odds/Ends, 06/12/06
- Plagiarising the Whatever
- Back from Kokomo
- It’s the Devil’s Book!
- Killed!
- Readercon in July
- Way Down in Kokomo, Plus TGB Review
- Monoprocessorial
- Representin’ for the Geek Tribe
- al-Zarqawi
- Wednesday Author Interview: Tate Hallaway
- Addendum
- Writing Catchup
- Grading the Amendment
- Happy Devil Day!
- Lack of Livejournalling
- Synchronicity, of a Sort
- Synchronicity, of a Sort
- A Decade of Freelance
- An Irregular Guy
- My Life Among The Big Fluffy Clouds: A Brief Photo Essay
- TGB Review in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- My Kid Has More Writing Awards Than Me
- Letters From Neighborhood Bigots
- Bad News, Good News, Appalling News
- New York City, Chock Full of National Monuments and Landmarks
- Strikeout
- Late Appearing Con Crud
May 2006
- The Fermi Paradox
- Comments
- Irony 2
- Wiscon 30/06
- The Perfect Man
- Something to Hold You
- Brain-Dead
- Ping
- OMW as VG?
- Oh, Dear
- Traveling Thursday
- When Reviews Happen
- Julia Spencer-Fleming Interview on By The Way
- Help Me Build a FAQ
- Word 2007 Beta — Shiny!
- When Birds Attack Patio Doors
- The Other Campbell Award
- We’re Ruled By Morons, Part the Infinite
- A Musical Dichotomy
- Ghost Brigades Review in the San Antonio Express-News
- Pictures from the Scalzi Compound
- Justice and the Religious Right
- Two More Motivational Posters
- Professionally Photographed
- Wiscon Schedule
- Why I Don’t Get Hired to Write Motivational Posters
- Postcards from the Edge (or from Kokomo)
- An Illustration for Subterranean Magazine
- Testing Something (Again)
- When Authors Respond!
- Rock Kills Kid
- Wednesday Author Inteview: Nick Sagan
- Blast from the Past: Flaming Babies!
- Riding the 404 Express
- House for Rent
- Ben Bova Loses the Hip-Hop Market Forever
- Another View of Old Man’s War
- The Ultimate Humiliation
- Whatever & Mac Firefox
- Whatever & Mac Firefox
- Whatever & Mac Firefox
- Friday Night Open Thread
- Birdie Birdie Birdie
- 29%
- I Can’t Talk Now. This Line is Being Watched.
- Robert Sawyer, American
- 37
- Specials, Plus Free Pimp Zone
- Your Wednesday Author Interview is Live
- PlayStation 3 Pricing
- Now You Know
- Next Year in Jerusalem
- Heinlein Centennial
- Amazon Rankings and Non-Fiction
- Nebula Award Winners
- My 1998 Meandering Essay on Coca-Cola
- Take Me Out, Etc., Etc.
- Cue the AC/DC
- I Am Router, Hear Me Roar
- Fiddle, Fiddle
- DSL Issues and Ice Cream Haiku
- Uh oh
- Other Stuff, 5/4/06
- Amazon Prime = Teh Crack
- Why I Dig My AOL Gig
- Author Interviews on By The Way
- “…she made loud laughter between a negative confrontation.”
- Sunset, May 2, 2006
- A Poll.
- Bestselling Authors Tobias Buckell & Charlie Stross
- Bestselling Authors Tobias Buckell & Charlie Stross
- Bestselling Authors Tobias Buckell & Charlie Stross
- Colbert, Soup, Piss
- As You Know, Bob
- Early Notice
- High Gear
April 2006
- Athena At Bat
- Androids and Zombies
- 10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing
- Quick Hits, 4/26/06
- My MySpace page
- Connie Willis, Cheap!
- Quick Hits, 4/25/06
- And Now, Some Marketing Coverage
- OMW: Locus Award Finalist
- Two Quick Self-Serving Links
- Tea Parties in Science Fiction
- Copyright Squares
- Penguicon Notes
- The 2006 Stupidest FanFic Writer Award Gets Retired Early
- Coffee Shop on Amazon
- A Quick Observation
- Penguicon 4.0 Schedule
- Agent to the Stars is Dead; Long Live Agent to the Stars!
- Birthday Thanks
- Purity Balls
- A YA Thing
- Nuggets, 4/18/06
- Dia de las Krissy
- All-American Girl
- Pointlessly Wasting Money: A Quiz
- Taxes
- Two (Well, Four) Reviews; also, Ambitions
- And This Is What He Does
- A Book Appearance, Not My Own
- Richard Powers and SF Artwork
- Reattached
- Cut Off, Continued
- Cut Off
- Puppy Pictures
- OMW in Japan
- On the Distribution Front
- Copyedits Galore!
- Copyedits Galore!
- Testing Something
- Links and Stuff
- Everybody Welcome
- Iran and Saber-Rattling
- Cover Story and Cover Art
- Will Republican Voters Grow Spines in 2006?
- Appearances, Real and Virtual
- A Musical Friendpimp
- Useful Books for Teenage Writers
- Interview, Review
- Odd and Ends, 4/3/06
- Odd and Ends, 4/3/06
- Award-Winning Author Cherie Priest
- Award-Winning Author Cherie Priest
- Thinking About Rich and Snooty Schools
- Lightning Crashes
- Murderous Rage
- TGB Review in the San Francisco Chronicle
- An Interesting Thought
March 2006
- Here’s a Question:
- Coining a Phrase: “Christian Victim Front”
- A Grateful Nation Thanks Its President
- DeLay’s War
- Adding Accelerando
- Adding Accelerando
- Interesting But Unverifiable Facts About the 2006 Campbell Class
- Spin, Accelerando and Old Man’s War: The 2006 Hugo/Campbell Voters Electronic Editions
- “Coffee Shop” and Subterranean Scalzi Sale
- Writing Memes and Hal Duncan
- Feeling Patriotic
- Krieg des Alten Mannes und Die Geist Brigaden
- Two Suns in the Sunset
- Two Suns in the Sunset
- Caught Unawares
- Fred Phelps and Free Speech
- News, Various Thoughts Thereof
- Snakes on a Plane!
- Printilation
- Dear Asimov’s and Analog: Not to Complain, But…
- Nomination Aftermath
- Hugos and Campbells
- Bow Down to Her Queenly Queenliness
- Bow Down to Her Queenly Queenliness
- Snow is Here
- Snow is Coming
- Take the Hit
- Take the Hit
- Before I Forget —
- Proof We Need Better 1st Amendment Education
- So 3
- So 2
- Crawdads
- Spring Look
- St. Patrick’s Day Blatherations
- An Astronomy Workshop for SF Writers?
- Magic Lessons
- When People Who Don’t Get It Attack
- New TGB reviews
- Coming Around to My Way of Thinking
- Thoughts on An Army of Davids
- The Money Entry
- Subterranean Magazine Cliche Issue Available for Pre-Order
- Philadelphia Inquirer Podcast is Up
- If I Ran the Nebulas
- Flooding, Plus Links
- OMW Hardcover, Out of Print
- March Madness, Scalzi Family Style
- Another Side of My Beloved Wife
- Pictures from Home
- Reader Request Week 2006 #7: Writing on Writing
- Reader Request Week 2006 #6: Paranoid Parents
- Reader Request Week 2006 #5: A Political Judiciary
- Reader Request Week 2006 #4: The Nintendo Revolution
- Reader Request Week 2006 #3: Writers and Technology
- Reader Request Week 2006 #2: 10 Childhood Nuggets
- Reader Request Week 2006 #1: SF Novels and Films
- Gaaaaaah, or, Please Stand By
- An Excursion Into Short Story Land, Plus a TGB Review
- Post-Oscar Thoughts
- Going to the Chapel
- Shortly Before The Explosion
- Oscars, Campbells, Claire Light, Joe Hill, Amnesty International, Shenandoah
- Reader Request Week 2006: Get Your Requests In
- Yawncat Is Not Pleased.
- Three Quick Book-Related Notes
February 2006
- Hangin’ With the Larbalesterfelds
- Dictionaries, VanderMeer, Pyr, Politics, Birthday
- In the Groves of Academe
- Old Man’s War and The Ghost Brigades e-Books: The (Semi) Official Announcement, Plus a Long Writing Screed
- Octavia Butler
- InstaPodcast
- International Embarass Yourself as an Artist Day
- Entertainment Weekly Review of TGB
- Incompetence in Action
- TGB @ SFBC
- Uncle John’s Visits Hollywood
- Heh, and Indeed.
- Free Speech For Everyone, Even The Dickheads
- Subterranean Magazine Cover Art
- Friendpimping on a Wednesday Morning
- Athena’s Latest Plush Thing
- Miracles and Wonders, or, Holy Crap
- Subterranean Sale
- My iTunes Top Ten
- The Ghost Brigades: Officially Out!
- Boskonery
- Back From Boston, Briefly; Also, New Interview
- Off to Boston
- Quick Review Linkage Plus Web Designer Recommendations Needed
- Conversations With My Daughter, Thursday Edition.
- Your Hugo/Campbell Recommendations
- Ohio Board of Education Picks Up Clue, Sprints
- I Can See For Miles and Miles
- Oh —
- Reviews Aggregator
- Scalzi Sells Out to Sprint and the Chinese, and Other Tales
- Writing Tips for Non-Writers Who Don’t Want to Work at Writing
- Clean Office, Clean Mind
- Autographed Copies
- The John Scalzi Agent FAQ
- When Stupid People Won’t Shut Up
- The Power of Petey Compels You!
- Achieving Bookosity
- The Looney Tunes Characters Will Soon Be Looking For Work
- TGB Review at SFSignal
- Ursine Wisdom
- NASA Becomes Marginally Less Stupid
- Crystal Rain is Out!
- Free-Speech Jackassery Built Right Here in the US!
- Iranian Free Expression, Such As It Is
- Another Review, and a Link, Oh, and Another Link
- SFRevu Review of The Ghost Brigades
- Prioritizing the Idiots
- Norwegian Wood
- Hate Mail is Done!
- Writing Blah Blah Blah, 2/3/06
- Music Pimpery
- Ook! Ook! Ook!
- I’ve Got a Boehner
- For Those of You Who Like to Vote For Things Online
- Boskone Schedule
- The Return of Beer in Space
- February Portraits
- State of the Union
January 2006
- Anecdotal Evidence of the Long Tail
- Just Because You’re in Publishing Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Be a Moron
- Oh, Dear
- Early Oscar Thoughts, 2006 Edition
- Out of Print
- Ahead of the Curve
- TGB in My Hands
- Philadelphia Feeling
- From Russia With Cats
- Title Change for Writing Book
- Philadelphia (and New York), Here I Come
- The Canadian Example
- DragonPage Podcast Interview
- PW Review of The Ghost Brigades
- ConFusion Writeup
- Who Put the Bomp?
- Selected Creatures from the Athena Collection, With Artist Commentary
- Subterranean Magazine Update Plus Reminder
- The Oldination!
- Space Age Miracle Fiber Mattress
- Instructive
- There is Always Another Way
- SF Website Pimpin’ — Plus an Open Pimp Thread!
- Click
- A Spin-Off
- Blog-to-Books Award
- Thinking Aloud on “Hate Mail”
- Backdoor ID?
- My Daughter The Poet
- Learn by Doing
- Alito
- Personal Literary Events
- January is National Literary Fraud Month!
- Overload
- The Return of the 30 Second Socratic Dialogue!
- Rex in Repose
- In Other News
- Preliminary Nebula Ballot
- One Other Thing —
- Subterranean Magazine Cliche Issue Lineup
- Coming to Philadelphia
- Something Nice; Synthetic Confusion Schedule
- Bainbridge Reads TGB
- Doin’ it For the Kids
- How The Blogoverse Ends
- Photoshop as Time Machine
- I Write a Lot Here
- Just a Thought
- Testing Something
- The Full Extent of My Personal Award Pimpage for 2006
- Perfect Ending to a Perfect Day
- OMW & TGB: SciFi Essentials Books for January
- OMW & TGB: SciFi Essentials Books for January
- Welcome to 2006!
2005 574
December 2005
- Stick a Fork in 2005
- Fun, While It Lasts
- Another Sighting; Also, Amazon Author Blogs
- The Recline of the American Family
- Variation on a Theme
- I Require New Music!
- The Chicago Tribune’s Take on the War
- The Big Time
- Thinking About 2006
- Old Man’s War Trade Paperback Officially Out
- Just So You Know
- A Very Scalzi Christmas, 2005
- It’s Not Easy Being Spoiled
- Found in the Wild
- Whatever Best of 2005
- Athena’s Birthday Gift To You
- Life Goals Past and Present
- Making a Contribution
- On Reader Requests and, Also, Iran
- The Flying Spaghetti Monster Will Not Be Pleased
- The Last Thing I’ll Post About Bush This Week (Maybe)
- More On That Whole Impeachment Thing
- Outside Sources and Etc.
- Small Happy Dance
- The Impeach Bush Bandwagon
- Son & Foe
- Son & Foe
- Outreach in Action: Gateway Science Fiction
- “Alien Animal Encounters” at Escape Pod
- Science Fiction Outreach
- Find the Old Man’s War Trade Paperback in the Wild: A Contest
- Mail Note
- I Heart Instapundit, Part [Insert Large Number Here]
- Bragging, Geek Style
- The Little Things
- Ice Storm
- 15 Things About Me and Writing
- 15 Things About Me and Books
- The War on Christmas Has Its Subversive Element
- Two Small Notes of a Literary Nature
- Snowfall, With Dog, in Motion.
- Christopher Robin is Out There in the Woods
- Let’s Judge Now
- Sweet
- Standing Up for Dubya, Such As It Is
- Final Subterranean Magazine Submissions Post
- Sigh
- Adventures in Nucleation
- Over the Wires
- Things You Can’t Tell About a Guy By Looking At Him
- Submitting Elsewhere
- Interesting Data Point
- Christmas Reruns
- How To Tell SF from F
- Subterranean Magazine Submissions Update
- How Not to Plagiarize
- Random Thought About the War
November 2005
- What I’ll Be Doing in 2006
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Goth
- Firefox 1.5 on Mac: Not Ready for Prime Time
- But Enough About Me…
- First Review of The Ghost Brigades
- One Song, Five Takes — A Musical Meme
- Off It Goes
- The Editorial Process, Revealed, Kinda
- An Interesting Condundrum
- Geek-Related Activities
- Political Rant, Boiled Way Down
- Because Lack of Competence Should Never Be a Barrier
- Thanksgiving Sky
- Thanksgiving
- First Snowfall Photoset
- It’s a Sale!
- The Existential Tension of Photography
- Basic Friend Pimpage
- A Shout-Out to All The Childfree Folks Out There
- Let There Be (New) Light
- Space Heater: The Warmination!
- La Guerre Du Vieil Homme
- Pointless Early Friday Rant
- Meet the Ni-Nins
- TGB ARCs — OK!
- Greetings to the Rat People! Or, An Announcement
- EFF and Bloggers
- Ugh
- The Surrendered Husband
- Gamma Gamma Hey
- Two Quotes
- Uh…
- Thinking About COCOA
- Intelligent Voting
- Primarily of Interest to Family Members
- What I Did With My Morning
- TGB, Described
- The Comedy Canon: A Meme for You
- Returning the Favor
- Eye-Roller of the Day
- Fun With Royalties and other Book News
- Mike Argento and the Dover, PA ID Trial
- Rough Guide Movie Books: Pick a Canon
- Patenting Plots?
- Relevant Religious Positions
- Sunset, 11/03/05
- Another Helpful Cloning Hint
- 35 for 43
- I’m Being Framed
- World Fantasy Convention? What’s That?
- The Most Idiotic Star Wars Review Ever
- Last Day for Subterranean Submissions!
October 2005
- Curious About Newspapers
- My Big Fat Camera Experience
- Useless Atheism
- Look and Feel Update
- Swing Swing Swing
- Mars
- Fiddle Fiddle
- The Scandal Standard
- Various Notes and Links 10/27
- The Rock Family!
- Chicago’s First Team
- The Document No One Knows About
- The Mac’s Back
- A Note on the Day of the Passing of Rosa Parks
- Uxoriousness, Flickr Style
- More Proof Astrology Is Irrevocably Wrong
- Guess The Theme
- This Almost Makes Me Want to Go To Church
- Reminder — Get Those Subterranean Submissions In!
- Ho Ho Ho, I Say — Another Uncle John Book For Ye.
- The Cat’s Going Through an “Arty” Phase
- Athena’s Gothy Holiday Greetings!
- What is Science Fiction Anyway?
- Suffering the Idiots
- When the Wind Blows
- Meme-statizing the Canon
- The Cynical Writer
- Buggin’
- Oh, My.
- Clouds and Sun
- The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies — Officially Out!
- What Writing Online is Good For, October 2005 Edition
- What Passes For an Online Literary Feud These Days
- Questions for a Soldier — an Old Man’s War Tale Addendum
- Writers on Writers, And It’s Not What You Think
- Tech Geekery Which Promises Not to Be Of Interest to Anyone But Me
- A Pop (well, bluegrass) Quiz
- Work Wonkery
- Phlegmily
- NaNoWriMo Revisited
- La la la la la la la la
- Questions for a Soldier — an Old Man’s War Tale
- A Review of Four and Twenty Blackbirds
- Bell Ringing
- Story re: Subterranean Magazine on SciFi.com
- Chrome Dome
- Book Seven: Harry Potter and the Christopher Street Bathhouse
- And Then They Made Her Queen of Their World
- Mad Crazy Laziness
- Things to Know About Clones, Addendum
- Things to Know About Clones
- Adapted From Life
- Serenity Box Office Thoughts
- Open for Business
- Chicago Trip Photoset
- Unfinished Business
- The Geek’s Lament
- The Great Lakes Booksellers Convention
September 2005
- Okay, One More
- Photoblogging as Threatened
- First Shot
- My Copyediting Sins
- Mac, He Dead
- Copy Edits and Cherie Priest
- Taunting the Tauntable, Part 17,443
- The Mother of All Bad Ideas
- The Actress
- Yet Another Subterranean Magazine Submissions Reminder
- Being Privileged
- Giving Direction for “Being Poor”
- Conventioneering — Warning: Geekery Ahead!
- How to Tell your Sick Child is Feeling Better
- Sunset 9/22/05
- Another Uncle John Book!
- Questionable Popery
- Google Books
- A Thought Exercise
- In the Beginning
- Why Daddy is not Allowed to Dress Athena
- In Honor of a Special Day
- An Unusual Request for Help
- Play Ball, Part II
- Catching Up on News
- New Amazonian Sickness
- AdvancedEntryEditing Plugin
- Recent Books, 9/16
- Guidelines for Publicists
- Shelby’s New Album
- Seven Years
- The Shiny New Toy
- TGB Post-Mortem
- In the Trib
- The Ghost Brigades, Completed
- TGB Update
- Pathetic Writer Motivation Trick #459
- Typus Interruptus
- A September Moment
- Comment Donations
- The Speckless Sky, Revisited
- Reaffirming Christianity
- Katrina: Messages of Hope Blog
- Migrating Blog Posts; Raisin Bran
- Gaaaaaah
- Going Meta for a Moment
- Being Poor Additional Comments Post
- Noted Without Comment
- Quick Followups
- Oh Boy
- Being Poor
- An Adversarial Media
- Condi’s Shoes
- Stupid, Stupid Poor
- New Orleans
- Subterranean Magazine Submissions Reminder
- Rare By The Way Plug
August 2005
- The Soda’s in the Bathtub
- 3.2 Followup
- Scifi.com Interview
- Back to School
- Additional 3.2 Notes
- On the 3.2
- Upgrading
- Antidote
- Where It Comes From
- Checking My Calendar…
- Whoops 4
- Peeps
- Google Talk Address
- Glub, Glub
- Making Multiples
- There Can Be Only One
- Amazon Shorts
- Y.A.S.P. (Yet Another Sunset Picture)
- A Brilliant Goodbye
- Sunset 8/19/05
- A Web Entry I Could Not Write
- An Amazon Depatment Too Far
- Wanting to Be a Writer
- Curious
- Duuuuuuuuuuh
- Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies Arrives
- Secrets and Lies
- Hasten the Day!
- Partisan Stupidity
- Storm Clouds
- What I Want, MT Plugin Division
- From the “What the Hell?” File
- The Fanfic Community Eats One of Its Own and Spits Out The Bones
- Cake Vs. Pie: The Final Conflict
- The Reading Stack 8/11/05
- Odd Book and Other Book Notes
- Schadenfreude in Kansas
- A Request From Athena
- Interaction Wrapup
- Glasgow Clouds
- The Official Off to Scotland Open Thread
- The Myth of the Science Fiction Monoculture
- Other News (Quickly)
- What I Did On My Summer Vacation
- Thank You to The Guest Bloggers!
- Finally, some real blogging
July 2005
- Ohio: The Heart of It All (Yeah, Right.)
- Cat Vacuuming: A Post With Visual Aids
- A final Thursday half-hearted shout-out to my peeps (or complete lack thereof)
- They Call Him the Wanderer…No, Wait, Scratch That
- Saturn Speaks
- Doctors and lawyers and priestly ways
- Agent to the Stars Arrives
- Scalzi Mojo Winners
- What Prevents Terrorism?
- Watch Your Mouth
- The AGENT TO THE STARS Contest Apocalypse is Nigh
- Goodies
- Safe Travels, James Doohan
- One of My Life’s Great Mysteries, Solved!
- The Search for Scalzi
- D’oh! Accidently Deleted Comments
- Monday Morning Shill
- The Sky Is Falling!!! (Not!)
- Anonymity
- harry potter
- Rape Dilemma
- Teach them well and let them lead the way
- See A Guest Blogger Live
- Selling a Motorbike
- Mmmm, Karen Black!
- Pride and Joy
- Trivialities…
- Time For A Change In The Language
- Vigilant
- Fifty years ago, and today
- Wombatman Wombegins
- Plans to stir get shaken
- Don’t Hate SF, Because It’s Beautiful
- Sing, O Muse
- All Over Japan, Little Kids Are Shouting “Gamera!”
- Small Press Tutorial
- Personally, I Voted For Mike Judge. Huh-huh. Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh.
- Agoraphilic
- The Coming of the Antiscalzi
- Gendering Everything
- Farewell Ben
June 2005
- Outta Here
- The July Look
- Tidbits, 6/29
- And Thursdays are safe with (wait…who’s this guy – the one with the kid and such?)
- Stuck in the Middle with You
- My, it’s hot in here!
- Dashing in, slightly out of breath…
- Testing, testing …
- Misspent Youth
- Holy Crap!
- Scardown Hits the Shelves
- Winter In July, Film At 11
- Meet the Guest Bloggers
- Comments Out
- Attempting Upgrade
- Supreme Court Rulings, Etc
- 1000
- Soliciting Guest Bloggers
- Cracking the Flag-Burning Amendment
- Interaction Panel Schedule
- Open Letter to the University of Chicago Development Office
- Oh My God! They Look Just Like Us!
- How to Get Your Ass Kicked
- Two Rings
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
- 10 Years Part 2
- 10 Years
- So You’ve Stolen From Me: A Forgiveness Primer
- Practicing for the Nursing Home
- A Public Apology to Chad Brink
- The Acclerando E-Book
- Trackback Disabled
- Parental Blather, 6/14/2005
- Las Vegas and Two Unrelated Questions
- Tat Me, Babe
- Open Thread, 6/9/05
- Moderating Addendum
- World’s Crappiest Interview
- More on Moderating
- Sympathy for the Publicist
- Sunday Sky
- Booklist Review of Agent to the Stars
- Music and Book Memes
- Music for Girls
- Needed: Book Indexer
- Not a Question, More of a Comment: Killing the “Naqmoac”
- Quick Note About Comments and New Months
- Whoops 3
May 2005
- The Honeymoon is Over
- All The Cool People at Wiscon
- Feeling Madisonian
- Kibbles and Bits
- A Week’s Vacation
- Not Even the Doglings Were Spared!
- Holy Crap
- Synchronicity
- Old Man’s War: A Recruiter’s Wet Dream?
- Revenge of the Sith — The Long Form Review
- Revenge of the Sith: The Mini-Review
- Writing in the Age of Piracy
- The Family Assassin
- In Case You’re Wondering —
- Selling Science Fiction Books in 2005
- Wireless
- My Wife Done Got Herself Edumacated!
- The Stupidity of Worrying About Piracy
- Scott Westerfeld’s New Blog
- Newspaper Writing
- Portraiture Before the Storm
- Old Man’s War and Ghost Brigades Cover Art
- Picture Pairing: A Meme
- 36
- Why One Does Not Ask Rhetorical Questions in the Scalzi Household
- What My Jesus Would Do
- Early Tiger Thoughts
- Upgrading
- Overwriting
- Writing On Spec
- FriendBrowsing
- The Missus
- Poetry
April 2005
- Child-Spotting
- I Like Rhapsody
- Now We Call Him “Dusty.”
- Immortalized in Comic Form
- Wiscon Schedule
- Odds and Ends and Stuff and Crap
- Checks, Books, Bar Graphs
- My Daddy Went to Penguicon and All I Got Was This Massive Copyright Violation
- Off to Penguicon
- My Music
- Who The Hell Cares What’s Wrong With American SF?
- Pollen Days Are Here Again
- Sunsets and Popes
- Cusp
- Odd Request
- Krissy’s Birthday
- Reluctant Transformation
- Reader Request 2005: Odds and Ends
- Your Weird Moment of Synchronicity for the Day
- A Special Edition of OMW
- Reader Request 2005: Pot!
- Full-On Geekery
- Reader Request 2005: Beatles, Batman and They
- Yet Another Scalzi…
- It’s Official: I’m Bi!
- Reader Request Week 2005: Peak Oil
- Reader Request Week 2005: Creative Commons and FanFic
- Doubleblogging, OMW Review, Penguicon Schedule, Saul Bellow
- Reasonably Large OMW News
- Reader Request Week 2005: Get Your Requests In
- Whew
- Spring is Officially Here
- Thanks
- Rex the Cat, 1991 – 2005
- Type Type Type…
- Bits and Pieces
- Rerun Week: I Second That Emotion
March 2005
- Rerun Week: Counting the Days
- Rerun Week: Big Gay Kings
- Rerun Week: Visions of Hell
- Rerun Week: Visions of Hell
- Repeat Week — Goodies From the Lost Archives
- Hugo Goodness
- Hugo Goodness
- Little Bits
- Welcome F6Rider and ValkyrieRiders Visitors
- Welcome F6Rider and ValkyrieRiders Visitors
- Ten Things About Literary Rejection
- Spooky Girl
- Agent to the Stars Cover Art
- Clearing the Sulferous Air
- Terry Schiavo
- Seeking Submissions For SF Magazine — Please Read The Whole Entry
- Magic Or Madness
- Magic Or Madness
- Priming the Pump
- What SF is Great Literature?
- What Publishing Is
- What Publishing Is
- The Greatest Athena Picture Yet
- Class Act
- An Earned-Out Universe
- Hate Mail Entries
- Hate Mail Entries
- Quick Basement Update
- James Valvis at it Again
- Glub, Glub
- Glub, Glub
- Irrationalists
- The Most Sensible Damn Thing Anyone’s Said About Same Sex Marriage
- I For One Welcome Our New Storage Overlords
- The Edge of Finances
- “Patriotic” Dumbasses, Junior Division
- What I Want: Not a Meme, Just a List
- Visions of Mad Doctors
- Mock Up
- Campbell Awards Trivia
- A Snippet From the Edward Gorey Players
- A Snippet From the Edward Gorey Players
- Reviews & Interviews, 3/7/05
- Moon River
- Play Ball
- A New Euphemism For You
- The Secret Radio Interviews No One Knows About
- First Novel Delirium
- Laurence McMillin, 1923 – 2005
- The Virtue of Smaller Markets
- Your Wednesday Open Thread
- Cool Book Club News Which Segues Into Shameless Shill
- Just a Thought
- Asimov and the Cleti
- Completing the Trifecta of Adorable Cat Abuse Photos
February 2005
- The Winner of the “Let’s Mock Scalzi” Contest, And Other Odds and Ends
- The Winner of the “Let’s Mock Scalzi” Contest, And Other Odds and Ends
- Agent to the Stars — Available for Pre-order
- The Why of Writing
- Virtual Book Tours
- For the Grandparents, Relatives and Various and Sundry Friends
- For the Grandparents, Relatives and Various and Sundry Friends
- I Know, I’m Weak…
- Let’s Mock Scalzi: A Contest
- W00t
- I Never
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Just So We’re Clear:
- Annoyed! Arrrrr!
- The Problem With Parents
- Washington Post Review of OMW…
- Washington Post Review of OMW…
- 10 Things I’ve Done You Probably Haven’t
- Jeff Gannon, Liberal Victim
- Jeff Gannon, Liberal Victim
- A Vaguely Word-Related Post
- The S.L. Viehl Memorial Self-Pimpage Entry
- PublishAmerica Douses Self in Kerosene, Lights Match
- “Agent” Info and Appearance Reminder
- Covenant Marriage is Stupid
- Conventioneering
- 2004 Nebula Nominees
- Scalzi’s Overloaded Minestrone
- Happy Valentine’s Day
- HTML in Comments
- A Link You Don’t Get Every Day But Should
- My Musical Top Ten
- Moderated Comments
- Propaganda
- My Politics Since Bush
- The Money Involved
- The Trackback of the Beast
- Other People’s Books
- Finding Old Man’s War
- Some Booksluttery, and Cover Art
- Amazon Best Seller, Blah Blah Blah
- SF/F Novel Advances, Continued
- A Review in the Chicago Maroon!
- Old News
- Little Bits
- Booklist Review
- Athena’s First Story
- Acting Like a Grownup
January 2005
- Another Confederate Smackdown
- Voting is Done
- SF Chronicle Appearance, and Men’s Packages (Largely Unrelated Topics)
- Interview and Signing/Appearance
- Entertainment Weekly Review for Old Man’s War
- Oscar Nominations
- A Musical Interlude
- Biases
- Midnighters Down Under
- Confusion 31 Wrapup
- Some Excellent OMW News
- The Last Voyage of Nemo
- ConFusion 31 Schedule
- The Return of the Disclaimer
- Comment Spam
- Recent OMW Notices
- OMW Availability Update, Plus Signings
- Artwork for Agent
- Justine’s Site + OMW News
- The Politics of SF
- Design Note
- More Details
- Agent to the Stars: Sold
- A Pan, For Your Pleasure
- Genre Advances
- Also 4
- Celebrity Books
- Atom Feed
- For the RSS Feed Subscribers
- Briefly Noted
- Short Works
- Gaaaaaah
- A Terrifying Moment of Personal Introspection
- Word Processing
- Commenting Note
- OMW Availability
- Cover Art
- More Confederate Stupidity
- Frank “Skeeter” Scalzi
- Hard-Earned Wisdom
- Another Review for OMW
- SFRevu Review & Interview + SF Book Club Release