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+====== **John Scalzi** ======
 [[http://www.scalzi.com|John Scalzi]] is the author of the science fiction novels *Agent To The Stars, Old Man's War* and *The Ghost Brigades*. His [[http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/|"The Whatever" blog]] gets about ten to twenty thousand unique visitors a day. One of his blog entries, "Being Poor," was [[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0509150091sep15,1,3209937.story?coll=chi-opinionfront-hed|picked up by several newspapers]]
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-**Friday, April 21, 2006**: No events scheduled.
+__**Author GoH for Penguicon 2012**__
-**Saturday, April 22, 2006**:
-:00 pm -
+__**Past appearances:**__
-Worldbuilding -
-SteveMiller, KarlSchroeder, NancyAtwell, JohnScalzi -
-Some worlds you believe in, and some interfere with the story. How to build and portray your fictional world.
-:00 pm -
+  * **NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 7.0 in 2009**
-Warfare in SF -
+  * **NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 5.0 in 2007**
-JeffBeeler, JohnScalzi, BarbaraTrumpinskiRoberts -
+  * **NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 4.0 in 2006**
-Which authors, past and present, do the best job of looking at warfare in a science fiction context? What's most important: that it is convincing, that it is plausible, or something else entirely?
-:00 pm -
-Why Didn't Science Fiction Predict That? -
-FrankHayes, KarlSchroeder, JohnScalzi -
-SF predicted moon colonies by 2001 and computers so big they'd mostly exist in hyperspace. That wrongheadedness has something to say about predictions we're making today. And why DIDN'T SF predict Frogurt instead of yeast cigarettes, anyhow?
-**Sunday, April 23, 2006**:
-:00 am -
-Blogging for Life -
-TheFerrett, JohnScalzi, DavidKlecha -
-News pages. Online journals. Web logs. A lot of people are using them. What are the tools available, and what are the best ways to use them?
-:00 pm -
-Best SF Books of 2005 -
-JeffBeeler, JohnScalzi, TobiasBuckell, KarlSchroeder -
-What were the outstanding works of 2005? What are the titles to look for, and who are the authors to watch?