![]() ![]() ![]() “One of the nice things about Redshirts getting onto the actual best-seller list,” says Scalzi, “and doing as well as it has been doing, is that it’s kind of a wake-up call that the science fiction audience - regardless of the long-held superstitions or beliefs of those who publish the stuff - is more than happy to entertain the idea of humorous science fiction.” But now he thinks that’s starting to change. In the wake of that book’s success, he says, subpar imitators flooded the market, and when those books failed to sell, publishers became leery of humorous science fiction. He blames the bias against funny science fiction on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, ‘This is meant to be a funny book,’ and we didn’t have to make any bones about it,” says Scalzi in this week’s installment of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. His new book Redshirts, about disposable underlings in a Star Trek-style universe, is clearly packaged as humor. ![]()
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