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title = "Subterranean Scalzi Super Bundle - John Scalzi"
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date = 2015-03-20
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "john scalzi", "reviews", "scifi", "3 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16157467-subterranean-scalzi-super-bundle):
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Subterranean Press bundles together all of their John Scalzi titles into one easy-to-buy special this November:
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How I Proposed To My Wife: An Alien Sex Story
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An Election
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Judge Sn Goes Golfing
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Questions for a Soldier
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The Sagan Diary
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The Tale of the Wicked
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The God Engines
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You're Not fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to the Coffee Shop
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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**the stories are good, the blog posts, not so much**
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This is a book on five acts.
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The first act you have the stories. In this act, "The Diary of Jane Sagan" and
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"God Machines" are going to get stuck in your head, 'cause they are pretty
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excellent stories.
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The second act are blog posts, which are meh.
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The third act is a single story, which is ok.
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The fourth act are more blog posts, which manages to be more Boeing than the
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ones in the second act.
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The fifth act are unused chapters from "Lock In". They are probably good, if
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you read the published story.
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Now, while the stories are good, the fact that 70% of the book are blog posts
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is a real let down, mostly because I think blog posts are boring. Sure, there
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are exceptions to this rule, like Wil Weathon's book, in which he just don't
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put the posts, but actually put some background about them. For Scalzi, there
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is no such reflections and most of the posts are not even interesting, 'cause
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they are temporal or regional (like elections and things related to the USA).
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After a while, I just skipped most of them.
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Is it a worth book? Hard to answer. If I had only the stories and no blog
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posts, that would be awesome, but the posts just make the book longer without
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the need for such.
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