Praise for Monsters of Ohio: "This isn't the Ohio of my youth. Monsters and horror in every small town! This book made me laugh--and shudder. Wonderful chilling fun!" - R.L. Stine, author Goosebumps and Fear Street "[This] delightfully quirky, cozy sci-fi horror serves up a heaping helping of small-town charm, offers a love letter to the author's own rural Ohio small town, and pays homage to the pulp horror of classic scary movies while snarkily commenting that humans are the scariest monsters of all." - Library Journal , starred review "Twilight Zone by way of The Thing : unsettling, darkly funny, and impossible to put down."--Jeff Ayers, firstCLUE "A surprisingly cheerful tale of a suffering community fighting back against corporate predation. With Scalzi's dry wit on full display throughout, readers will have a blast dropping into Richland to mash with its monsters.
" - Publishers Weekly "Scalzi is at his best here, mixing bizarre events with a deep love of ordinary humans as we wrestle with the impossible. Even the worst bad guys get empathy and interiority, as do the ordinary shmoes muddling along with C-average smarts, bad luck, or bad decisions. Delightfully satisfying." - Ruthanna Emrys, author of A Half-Built Garden "John Scalzi serves up a slice of cosmic Americana. Monsters of Ohio is a petri dish of fungal scifi delight, a full-on fusion of Norman Rockwell and John Carpenter. You'll want to wear a poncho when you read this one. It gets wet." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil Inside Praise for John Scalzi: "John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun, intelligent, and irreverent.
I haven't enjoyed science fiction this much in years." --Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon on Zoe's Tale "John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective." --Robert Charles Wilson on Old Man's War "I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already." --Ken MacLeod on Old Man's War "[Scalzi's] stories really deliver emotionally and that he has a tone of voice that is immediately warm, attractive and welcoming. You want to read his book, hear his story, and he seems to want to tell it to you." --Jonathan Strahan on Zoe's Tale "How the hell do you make a book about turning the moon INTO CHEESE work? This shouldn't work! I will not stop being mad about this."--Mary Robinette Kowal on When the Moon Hits Your Eye " Escapism full of guts and brains.
"-- Ars Technica on The Collapsing Empire "Irreverent and subversive.with James Bond-level bad guys set in the everyday trudge of corporate life a la The Office."--Entertainment Weekly on Starter Villain.