John Scalzi

For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now… something absolutely impossible. Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives — over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you’d expect, and then to so many places you wouldn’t. John Scalzi is one of the most popular sci-fi authors of his generation. His debut, “Old Man’s War,” won him the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times best-sellers include “The Last Colony,” “Fuzzy Nation,” “Redshirts” (which won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel), “The Last Emperox,” “The Kaiju Preservation Society” and “Starter Villain.” Material from his blog, Whatever (whatever.scalzi.com), has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter. He will be presenting “When the Moon Hits Your Eye.”