Scalzi writes science fiction, has a couple of Hugos, and is totally NOT actually a lizard person from Antares here to learn your strange and incomprehensible human ways. Really, he's not. What would make you think he is? (Blinks his third and fourth eyes in a VERY HUMAN FASHION.) His newest book is “The Collapsing Empre” and he is a critic-at-large for the LA Times.