It's strange because it is a novella - that most hybrid of forms, weightier than the drive-by punch of a short story, lighter than a novel with all its baggage - given the treatment usually reserved for longer works.Īnd it's strange because it's Scalzi walking around in a sub-genre that's not his usual neighborhood. It is a physical book only as an afterthought, arriving on the shelves months after it appeared on people's phones. It's strange because, for starters, it's a backwards kind of book, done first for Audible, the audio book people, and therefore written with an ear toward performance. I mean the book as metaphysical object - book as BOOK, as story and voice and concept and conceit.
John Scalzi's newest book, The Dispatcher, is a strange one.Īnd I don't mean the book itself, though it has its own streak of oddity alive in its pages.
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