(December 2009, chapbook, Subterranean Press) Lock In universe Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome (Novella, May 2014, Subterranean Press, ) Lock In (August 2014, Tor Books, ) Head On (April 2018, Tor Books, ) The Interdependency series The Collapsing Empire (March 2017, Tor Books, ) The Consuming Fire (October 2018, Tor Books, ) The Last Emperox (April 2020, Tor Books, ) The Dispatcher series The Dispatcher (October 2016, audiobook, Audible Studios ; April 2017, ebook, Subterranean Press; May 2017, hardcover, Subterranean Press, ) Murder by Other Means (September 2020, audiobook, Audible Studios ; April 2021, ebook, Subterranean Press; April 2021, hardcover, Subterranean Press, }) Travel by Bullet (September 2022, audiobook, Audible Originals, ) Stand-alone fiction Stand-alone novels Agent to the Stars (available on Scalzi's website in 1999; August 2005 Subterranean Press, ; October 2008, Tor Books, ) Fuzzy Nation (May 2011, Tor Books, ) Redshirts (June 2012, Tor Books, ) The Kaiju Preservation Society (March 15th, 2022, Tor Books, ) Stand-alone novellas and novelettes The God Engines (December 2009, Subterranean Press, ) Stand-alone short fiction "Alien Animal Encounters" (Strange Horizons (online), October 15, 2001) "New Directives for Employee – Manxtse Relations" (published in Chapbook titled "Sketches of Daily Life: Two Missives From Possible Futures" by Subterranean Press, 2005. Chapbook also reprinted "Alien Animal Encounters") "Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate History Search Results" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition, February 2007) "How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story" (chapbook, Subterranean Press, 2007; available as shareware in April 2008) "Pluto Tells All" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition), May 2007 "Utere nihil non extra quiritationem suis" (METAtropolis, Audible.com, 2008, Subterranean Press 2009, Tor Books 2010) "Denise Jones, Super Booker" (Subterranean Magazine, online edition), September 2008) "The Tale of the Wicked" ('The New Space Opera 2 anthology, June 2009) "The President's Brain is Missing" (Tor.com, July 2010) "An Election" (Subterranean Magazine presented story on Scalzi's blog, online edition), November 2010 "The Other Large Thing" (Short story first published on Tweetdeck's "Deck.Ly" reprinted on Scalzi's blog), August 2011 "Muse of Fire" (Subterranean Press, September 9, 2013) Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi (Short story collection published by Subterranean Press, December 31, 2016) A Very Scalzi Christmas (Short story collection published by Subterranean Press, November 2019) Non-fiction books The Rough Guide to Money Online (October 2000, Rough Guide Books) The Rough Guide to the Universe (May 2003, Rough Guide Books, ) The