Starter Villain and Hugo Novels

Starter Villain, John Scalzi, 2023 novel. Fast and lightweight read, one of Scalzi's go-to plots - an average Joe dropped into an escalating SFnal situation - with one truly excellent laugh-out-loud moment that made me glad to have read the whole thing. If you like Scalzi this is one, if you don't like Scalzi you won't like this either. (If you've never read Scalzi I'd go for either Old Man's War if you want classic or I guess Kaiju if you want recent.)

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