Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

On September 13, 1998, John Scalzi sat down in front of his computer to write the first entry in his blog Whatever--and changed the history of the Internet as we know it today.

What, you're not swallowing that one? Okay, fine: He started writing Whatever and amused about 15 people that first day. If that many. But he kept at it, for ten years and running. Now 40,000 people drop by on a daily basis to see what he's got to say.

About what? Well, about whatever: Politics, writing, family, war, popular culture and cats (especially with bacon on them). Sometimes he's funny. Sometimes he's serious (mostly he's sarcastic). Sometimes people agree with him. Sometimes they send him hate mail, which he grades on originality and sends back. Along the way, Scalzi's become a best-selling, award-winning author, a father, and a geek celebrity. But no matter what, there's always another Whatever post to amuse and/or enrage his readers.

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded collects some of the best and most popular Whatever entries from the first ten years of the blog - a decade of Whatever, presented in delightfully random form, just as it should be.

* Winner of the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book

* Introduction by Star Trek actor Wil Wheaton

JOHN SCALZI is the author of several science fiction novels, including Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe’s Tale, and The Android’s Dream. His nonfiction books include The Rough Guide to the Universe, The Rough Guide to Personal Finance, The Book of the Dumb, and You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing. He is a winner of science fiction’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.