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Throwback Thursday – Meeting John Scalzi
A year ago today, award winning author John Scalzi came to Medina and did a Q&A at our local library. Afterwards, he was gracious enough to do a book signing. As I had recently purchased Starter Villain, which was his latest book at the time, so I now have a signed copy!
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These past couple years, I’ve gotten back into #fiction reading. Mostly #scifi and #fantasy, of course. For a precious few minutes a day, entire worlds are opened up to me. I can’t describe how wonderful it’s been.
Now reading: #Oathbringer (Sanderson) and #RedRising (Brown).
On deck: #ShatteredEarth (Tchaikovsky), #StarterVillain (Scalzi) and #HailMary (Weir).
🐈 Evil cats? Villain conferences? Talking dolphins?? Yep, we’re reading Starter Villain this month at the Tog Sci-Fi Book Club!
📅 June 3rd, 7:30pm at Tog Hackerspace
Join us for the mayhem!
🔗 https://www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-hackerspace/events/kdddrtyhcjbfb/
#ScifiBookClub #StarterVillain
I Met John Scalzi!!!
Author John Scalzi came to the Medina County District Library tonight to present his master class on sustainable super villainy and his best selling manual, Starter Villain.
Scalzi Written, Tyrion ApprovedIt was an entertaining and captivating hour hearing John answer questions and tell series about his writing, both what he’s written and the process itself.
I’m actually distracted by the backdrop for our selfie.I’m looking forward to John’s next book coming out in 2025, When The Moon Hits Your Eye, as well as the seventh installment in the Old Man’s War series later next year.
Tyrion still thinks it’s a manual.#Books #JohnScalzi #MedinaCountyDistrictLibrary #OldManSWar #StarterVillain #WhenTheMoonHitsYourEye
of physical opposition, but also in terms of the interpersonal conflicts they have to overcome.
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Just finished #StarterVillain - thoroughly enjoyable, fast, fun and nerdy in all the best ways!
@scalzi great work. Cetaceans of the world unite!
@GeriAQuin That right there looks like a #StarterVillain cat.
Going live with a #BookClub ep talking about #WitchKing, #StarterVillain, #TranslationState!
@neve
Example of masterfully written awkward moments:
In Starter Villain (by John Scalzi), there's a scene at the beginning where the MC tries to get a bank loan, which gets more and more awkward until they're talking about the wedding gift sent by his rich uncle . . .
Scalzi is the master of snarky dialogue, but this is less snarky and more, well, awkward. Intentionally so.
We highly recommend #StarterVillain by @scalzi . We thoroughly enjoyed the audiobook narrated by #WilWheaton. We had been looking for a funny original story for a while and it seemed like there was nothing out there but stand-up comedians and their (ghost) writers.
#DogsOfMastodon might worry that #Cats have main character energy in the story but Moxxi says that the dolphins made up for it. She's crossing her toe beans for a story involving a witty #corgi next.
Finished John Scalzi's Starter Villain two days ago. It's a very fun read, which is light on depth. That's fine though, I got a popcorn movie feel from it and it was a very quick read too. This marks the second book I read by him this year, after the Kaiju Preservation Society.
Which one should I read next?
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Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.
Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.
But becoming a supervillain isn’t all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they’re coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.
It’s up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.
In a dog-eat-dog world…be a cat.
https://medi-nerd.com/2023/10/14/starter-villain/
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Just finished #StarterVillain by @scalzi. I enjoy all his books but this one is top tier.
I spent the day deep cleaning the entire house while listening to an audiobook and it was sooooooo satisfying. #bookstodon #StarterVillain #JohnScalzi
It's a great day when you learn that one of your favourite #scifi authors #JohnScalzi commissioned one of your favourite underground hip hop artists #Dessa to write the theme song of his latest book #StarterVillain.
No one but John Scalzi can get away with creating a universe where intelligent and sentient cats help run a business which generates diabolical villains. #StarterVillain
#LunchtimeReading : beginning the new @scalzi , Starter Villain. A nephew inherits his late uncle's supervillain empire. Cats are also involved. Delighted chuckling has been heard.
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I usually don’t buy books from the *mazon site because I like to support my local bookshops, but my overlords just made me pre-order this new @scalzi book, and I think you should too! #StarterVillain #Scalzi #Bookstodon #BooksofMastodon