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3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (a short story) (The Time Traveler's Passport, #1) was the most recently released book by John Scalzi, on November 1st, 2025.

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John Scalzi Stats: The highest rated book by John Scalzi on Book Notification is When the Moon Hits Your Eye, a Standalone novel. The second-highest rated book is Miniatures, a Collection.

The most read book by John Scalzi on Book Notification is Old Man's War, the first novel in the Old Man's War series. The second most read book is The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War #2).

Below is a complete list of John Scalzi books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by John Scalzi is the Old Man's War Series.

List of Old Man's War Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.4
Old Man's War
2005
Go
2
8.1
The Ghost Brigades
2006
Go
3
8
The Last Colony
2007
Go
4
7
Zoe's Tale
2008
Go
5
7.9
The Human Division
2013
Go
6
7.5
The End of All Things
2015
Go
7
8.6
The Shattering Peace
2025
Go

List of Old Man's War Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

The elderly are recruited from Earth to fight a brutal, decades long alien war for colony planets in deep space.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
10
Questions for a Soldier
2005
Go
2
7
The Sagan Diary
2007
Go
3
8
After the Coup
2008
Go

List of The Dispatcher Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.1
The Dispatcher
2016
Go
2
8.1
Murder By Other Means
2021
Go
3
8.2
Travel by Bullet
2022
Go

List of End of All Things Books in Publication Order

Lieutenant Wilson must prevent humanity's extinction by keeping the peace and uniting a weakened humanity.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
9.3
The Life of the Mind
2015
Go
2
9.3
This Hollow Union
2015
Go
3
9.3
Can Long Endure
2015
Go
4
9.3
To Stand or Fall
2015
Go

List of The Interdependency Books in Publication Order

The collapse of the sole star highway forces an Emperox to fight for humanity's survival against political rivals as their empire falls.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.4
The Collapsing Empire
2017
Go
2
8.4
The Consuming Fire
2018
Go
3
10
The Origin of the Flow
2019
4
8.3
The Last Emperox
2020
Go

List of Human Division Books in Publication Order

Human diplomats and soldiers undertake critical missions where secrets and crossed paths risk failure and war.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.3
The B-Team
2013
Go
2
8.4
Walk the Plank
2013
Go
3
8.3
We Only Need the Heads
2013
Go
4
8
A Voice in the Wilderness
2013
Go
5
7.8
Tales From the Clarke
2013
Go
6
8.3
The Back Channel
2013
Go
7
8.3
The Dog King
2013
Go
8
8.3
The Sound of Rebellion
2013
Go
9
8.3
The Observers
2013
Go
10
8.3
This Must Be the Place
2013
Go
11
8.3
A Problem of Proportion
2013
Go
12
8.3
The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads
2013
Go
13
8.3
Earth Below, Sky Above
2013
Go

List of Lock In Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.4
Unlocked
2014
Go
2
8.2
Lock In
2014
Go
3
8.6
Head On
2018
Go

List of Shadow War Of The Night Dragons Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

A humorous short story, originally written as an April Fool's joke.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6
The Dead City
2011
Go

List of The Android's Dream Books in Publication Order

An alien diplomat's death forces a man to find a unique sheep to prevent interstellar war.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7.8
The Android's Dream
2006
Go
2
7
Judge Sn Goes Golfing
2009
Go

List of Whatever Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
2008
Go
2
The Mallet of Loving Correction
2013
Go

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
6.8
Agent to the Stars
2004
Go
2
6.7
The God Engines
2009
Go
3
6
The Dead City
2011
Go
4
7.5
Redshirts
2012
Go
5
Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies
2018
Go
6
6
A Very Scalzi Christmas
2019
Go
7
8.3
The Kaiju Preservation Society
2022
Go
8
8.9
Starter Villain
2023
Go
9
9.3
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
2025
Go
10
Monsters of Ohio
2026
Go

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.7
How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story
2006
Go
2
The Statue
2006
Go
3
10
The Tale of the Wicked
2009
Go
4
8.5
The President's Brain is Missing
2010
Go
5
6
When the Yogurt Took Over
2010
Go
6
10
An Election
2010
Go
7
Dave and Liz and Chicago Save the World
2012
Go
8
Muse of Fire
2013
Go
9
9.5
Everything but the Squeal
2016
Go
10
6
Automated Customer Service
2018
Go
11
8.7
Constituent Service
2024
Go

List of Short Story Collections in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
9.1
Miniatures
2016
Go

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Rough Guide to Money Online
2000
Go
2
The Rough Guide to the Universe
2003
Go
3
Uncle John's Presents: The Book of the Dumb
2003
Go
4
Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb 2
2004
Go
5
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies
2005
Go
6
You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi On Writing
2007
Go
7
24 Frames into the Future
2012
Go
8
Don't Live For Your Obituary
2017
Go

List of Fuzzy Sapiens Books in Publication Order

Prospector Jack Holloway and his Fuzzy family fight to save their world from destruction.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7.5
Little Fuzzy (By: H. Beam Piper)
1962
Go
2
9
Fuzzy Sapiens / The Other Human Race (By: H. Beam Piper)
1964
Go
3
10
Fuzzy Bones (By: William Tuning)
1981
Go
4
Golden Dream (By: Ardath Mayhar)
1982
Go
5
9
The Adventures of Little Fuzzy (By: H. Beam Piper)
1983
Go
6
10
Fuzzies and Other People (By: H. Beam Piper)
1984
Go
7
Fuzzy Ergo Sum (By: Wolfgang Diehr)
2011
Go
8
7.4
Fuzzy Nation
2011
Go
9
Caveat Fuzzy (By: Wolfgang Diehr)
2012
Go
10
The Fuzzy Conundrum (By: John F. Carr, Wolfgang Diehr)
2016
Go
11
Fuzzy Logic (By: Wolfgang Diehr)
2022
Go
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List of Far Reaches Collection Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8.8
Slow Time Between the Stars
2023
Go
2
7.7
How It Unfolds (By: James S. A. Corey)
2023
Go
3
7.3
The Long Game ( By: Ann Leckie)
2023
Go
4
8
Void ( By: Veronica Roth)
2023
Go
5
5.3
Falling Bodies (By: Rebecca Roanhorse)
2023
Go
6
6.7
Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (By: Nnedi Okorafor)
2023
Go
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List of METAtropolis Books in Publication Order

Looks at a transformed America after societal collapse, exploring new urban futures.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
METAtropolis (With: Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Karl Schroeder)
2008
Go
2
8
Cascadia (By: Ken Scholes)
2010
Go
3
Green Space (By: Jay Lake)
2013
Go
4
A Symmetry of Serpents and Doves (By: Ken Scholes)
2014
Go
5
8
Byways (By: Tobias Buckell)
2014
Go
6
The Wings We Dare Aspire ( By: Ken Scholes)
2014
Go
7
Stochasticity (By: Tobias Buckell)
2016
Go
8
Tensegrity (By: Tobias Buckell)
2016
Go
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List of The Time Traveler's Passport Books in Publication Order

Short story collection featuring time travel, memory, identity, and choice.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7.7
3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years
2025
Go
2
10
Cronus (By: P Djèlí Clark)
2025
Go
3
6.5
Making Space (By: R.F. Kuang)
2025
Go
4
10
For a Limited Time Only (By: Peng Shepherd)
2025
Go
5
10
All Manner of Thing Shall Be (By: Olivie Blake)
2025
Go
6
10
A Visit to the Husband Archive (By: Kaliane Bradley)
2025
Go
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List of John Scalzi Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Space Opera
2007
Go
2
Rip-Off!
2012
Go
3
Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012
2013
Go
4
Ad Astra
2015
Go
5
Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2014 Edition
2015
Go
6
Robots vs. Fairies
2018
Go
7
8
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume One
2021
Go
8
Love, Death + Robots: The Official Anthology: Volumes 2 & 3
2022
Go
9
Love, Death and Robots: The Official Anthology: Volume Four
2025
Go
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John Scalzi

John Scalzi was born on May 10th, 1969 and is currently 56 years old. John Scalzi was born in Fairfield, California, USA.

John Scalzi is the author of the Human Division series which currently consists of 13 novels. The Human Division series started in 2013 with the novel The B-Team. The most recently released novel in the Human Division series was Earth Below, Sky Above which was released in 2013. There are no upcoming novels for the Human Division series.

John Scalzi: Awards & Accolades

Many of John Scalzi's books have won awards, including:

  • Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded won the Hugo Award, Best Related Work, in 2009.
  • The Last Colony won the Seiun Award, Best Translated Long Work, in 2010.
  • The Android's Dream won the Seiun Award, Best Translated Long Work, in 2013.
  • Redshirts won the Hugo Award, Best Novel, in 2013.
  • Lock In won the Alex Awards, Best Book, in 2015.
  • The Dispatcher won the Audie Award, Best Original Work, in 2017.
  • The Collapsing Empire won the RUSA Awards, Science Fiction Award, in 2018.
  • Robots vs. Fairies won the Shirley Jackson Award, Best Edited Anthology, in 2018.
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society won the Alex Awards, Best Book, in 2023.
  • Starter Villain won the Alex Awards, Best Book, in 2024.

The following novels by John Scalzi were nominated for these awards:

  • Old Man's War: Hugo Award, Best Novel (2006). Seiun Award, Best Translated Long Work (2008).
  • The Last Colony: Hugo Award, Best Novel (2008).
  • The Ghost Brigades: Seiun Award, Best Translated Long Work (2009).
  • Zoe's Tale: Hugo Award, Best Novel (2009).
  • METAtropolis: Audie Award, Best Original Work (2009).
  • The God Engines: Hugo Award, Best Novella (2010).
  • Fuzzy Nation: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2011).
  • Redshirts: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2012). Alex Awards, Best Book (2013). Seiun Award, Best Translated Long Work (2015).
  • The Human Division: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2013).
  • Rip-Off!: Audie Award, Best Original Work (2014).
  • Lock In: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2014). RUSA Awards, Science Fiction Award (2015).
  • The End of All Things: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2015).
  • The Collapsing Empire: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2017). Hugo Award, Best Novel (2018). Alex Awards, Best Book (2018).
  • Head On: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2018).
  • The Consuming Fire: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2018).
  • Robots vs. Fairies: Locus Award, Best Anthology (2019). World Fantasy Award, Anthology (2019).
  • The Last Emperox: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2020).
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2022). Hugo Award, Best Novel (2023).
  • Starter Villain: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2023). Hugo Award, Best Novel (2024).
  • When the Moon Hits Your Eye: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2025).
  • The Shattering Peace: Goodreads Awards, Best Science Fiction (2025).

John Scalzi: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Old Man's War was an AbeBooks: 50 Essential Science Fiction Books Selection in 2021 and an NPR: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books Selection in 2011.

The Dispatcher Series was listed on Audible's The Top 100 Book Series of All Time list in 2024.

Related Authors

Fans of John Scalzi also enjoy these authors:

  1. Edward Ashton, author of the Mickey7 Series.
  2. James S. A. Corey, author of The Expanse Series.
  3. William R. Forstchen, author of the After/John Matherson Series.
  4. Joe Haldeman, author of The Forever War Series.
  5. Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Children of Time Series.
  6. John Marrs, author of The One Universe Series.
  7. Ann Leckie, author of the Imperial Radch Series.
  8. Andrew Mayne, author of The Naturalist Series.
  9. Peter F. Hamilton, author of the Commonwealth Saga Series.
  10. Stephen Coonts, author of the Jake Grafton Series.

John Scalzi: F.A.Q

When was John Scalzi Born? How old is John Scalzi?

John Scalzi was born on May 10th, 1969. John Scalzi is currently 56 years old.

Where was John Scalzi Born?

John Scalzi was born in Fairfield, California, USA and is American.

What book awards has John Scalzi won?

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: Hugo Award Best Related Work (2009).
The Last Colony: Seiun Award Best Translated Long Work (2010).
The Android's Dream: Seiun Award Best Translated Long Work (2013).
Redshirts: Hugo Award Best Novel (2013).
Lock In: Alex Awards Best Book (2015).
The Dispatcher: Audie Award Best Original Work (2017).
The Collapsing Empire: RUSA Awards Science Fiction Award (2018).
Robots vs. Fairies: Shirley Jackson Award Best Edited Anthology (2018).
The Kaiju Preservation Society: Alex Awards Best Book (2023).
Starter Villain: Alex Awards Best Book (2024).

What was the first book John Scalzi wrote?

The first book written by John Scalzi was Rough Guide to Money Online, published in 2000.

What was the most recent book John Scalzi wrote?

His most recently released work was 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years (a short story) on November 1st, 2025.

What is the most popular book by John Scalzi?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular John Scalzi book is Old Man's War. Here are his most popular books:
  1. Old Man's War (8.42)
  2. The Ghost Brigades (8.14)
  3. The Last Colony (8.02)
  4. Starter Villain (8.91)
  5. Redshirts (7.54)

Are there upcoming new books by John Scalzi?

John Scalzi has a new book coming out on November 3rd, 2026 called Monsters of Ohio.

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How many books has John Scalzi written?

John Scalzi has written 75 books across 23 series, excluding contributions to anthologies.
  • 7 books in the Old Man's War Series
  • 3 Old Man's War Short Stories/Novellas
  • 3 books in The Dispatcher Series
  • 4 books in the End of All Things Series
  • 4 books in The Interdependency Series
  • 13 books in the Human Division Series
  • 3 books in the Lock In Series
  • 1 Shadow War Of The Night Dragons Short Stories/Novellas
  • 2 books in The Android's Dream Series
  • 2 books in the Whatever Series
  • 10 Standalone Novels
  • 11 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 1 Short Story Collections
  • 8 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in the Fuzzy Sapiens Series
  • 1 book in the Far Reaches Collection Series
  • 1 book in the METAtropolis Series
  • 1 book in The Time Traveler's Passport Series

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