![]() They are populated by recognizable character types – none of them being altered or warped by alienness or futurity into something truly other. Scalzi has imaginative concepts, sure, but there’s also always something entirely familiar and comfortable about his fictional worlds. Virtually every other notable science fiction author you can think of has him beat hands-down in the big idea department. And it’s this latter reason that I habitually read anything by Scalzi the minute it’s published. On the other hand, it’s just plain fun to read. It is, in many ways, a traditional space opera, full of imaginative technology, vivid world-building, and enormous stakes. ![]() Opening a review this way should give you a sense that I very much enjoyed The Collapsing Empire. I don’t need all science fiction to be written Scalzi style, but I do need more than we’ve got. Honestly, I don’t understand why there aren’t more science fiction writers like John Scalzi. Our reviews of this author: The Dispatcher Published by Tor Books on March 21st 2017 ![]()
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