====== **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]]
around the country, and another one, "[[http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003030.html|The 10 Least Successful Holiday
Specials of All Time]]," was picked up by NationalLampoon.com. John is
also an exceptional conversationalist. John was a panelist in 2005 and
was so good at it we are having him return as a NiftyGuest. Quoth
Scalzi: "I feel all shiny now."


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__**Author GoH for Penguicon 2012**__


__**Past appearances:**__

  * **NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 7.0 in 2009**
  * **NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 5.0 in 2007**
  * **NiftyGuest for PenguiCon 4.0 in 2006**