JOHN M. SCALZI, AUTHOR

 I've been reading a lot of fantasy fiction in the past year, not so much science fiction - though it's a genre I have read a lot of in the past.  It's a time, somehow, when escape is usually what I crave in my personal reading.  "Reality" is so fantastical, in a horrible sort of way, that reading fantasy and science fiction seems actually like a better reality.  If you see what I mean.  Anyway, what this is about is the book that has recently been published by our own BlogFather, John Scalzi.  Called Old Man's War, it is a sci fi novel, and according to the reviews is pretty damn good.  You know Scalzi's AOL journal, but you may not yet know his internet blog, Whatever.  He himself journaled the publication of his book here, on AOL, but has also posted several reviews on the Whatever blog, here and here.  Pre-pub he also gave us the Publisher's Weekly (bible of the booktrade, as I know from my years with Doubleday) advance review here.  You may think you know our boy Scalzi (and I can call him "boy" because he is the age of my younger stepson, and thus, to me - a youngster) if you read By the Way, but you don't, really, until you spend some time on Whatever.  It's a great read, his thoughts on writing, current events, the Confederacy and those who are determined to perpetuate it (one of his subjects I quite enjoy), other blogs, his own writing, etc. 

Anyway, my point IS, not yet having read any of Our Blogmeister's efforts between hardboard covers, I'm going to actually buy this one and read it.  I looked for it while I was in Dallas, at a couple of Borders, and didn't find it.  Here in the hinterlands there are few bookstores, so I'm heading to an online site to purchase it.  And, rest assured, I'll post my thoughts once I've read it.  It will have to take its place in the queue, of course.  Have any of all two or three of my bookblog readers yet picked it up?