An absolutely brilliant novel. John Scalzi becoming the my new favorite writer. So far his head is hitting the ass of Robert A. Heinlein who has been my favorite author since I was a teenager. But in this funny, often hilarious, touching and moving novel, there is an author that teaches me more about me in a different way that Heinlein touched and taught me as a teenager.

This book is just pure genius and has given me something that I wanted; who are the characters that support the main characters, and the narrative of a story? What are they about? Are they there just to be killed off? Or do they serve a greater purpose? This book firmly does not answer those questions but does an awesome job of giving you at least one author's perspective.

And I think we need more of that. Of course, in this book Scalzi refers to another author and now I have to go back to this book and find her name and her work and start reading her.

Thanks Scalzi!