Quick Heads up - I don’t want to ruin it for you, but John Scalzi is among the most repugnant of leftist pussies, and spends his spare time tweeting leftist crap and trying to purge conservatives from the Sci-Fi Author organizations using petty leftist politics. He actually got Vox Day purged from SFWA for being conservative. Personally I wouldn’t advance his interests or career.
Castalia House Publishing (www.castaliahouse.com) is actually a conservative publishing house that does great conservative sci-fi specifically to counter the influence of the pink shirts in SF like Scalzi, and which arose because of Vox’s purging.
Scalzi made a big splash a few years ago, at least with me, with his “Old Man’s War”. I followed that with the rest of his series, which concluded with “The Last Colony” and “Zoe’s Tale”.
Those last two did something interesting; they told the same story (background) from two different points of view. I found that intriguing because I’ve done something similar myself. I wrote a book about another book being made into a movie. This allowed me to populate the second book with characters from the first, who were being portrayed by entirely different people.
That made writing the second story much easier, as I was able to picture the characters and sequences with little effort, and only had to let the story evolve to its own conclusion.
But since those initial reads, I haven’t been too close a follower of Scalzi. I had hoped he would simply continue writing interesting ideas and plots, but he seems to want to cast a longer shadow than mere entertaining.
Thanks for the heads up I did not fell he was writing from a left perspective, i did enjoy the books though!