John Scalzi’s fourth novel, The Android’s Dream, is a bit of a departure for him, as he explains:

When my editor bought my first novel, Old Man's War, from me, he asked  me, "So, do you have another novel you'd like to sell to us?" Well, I didn't, so I said, "I sure do," and made the following book pitch: 

"Man saves humanity through the use of action scenes and snappy 
dialogue." "Great," he said. "We'll take it."

This is that book. It's pretty much like I described it to my editor, and this makes me deliriously happy. I like deep and thoughtful as much as the next guy, but sometimes I just want to have explosions  and bad guys and chase scenes and fast-talking sentient computers and  the fate of the world depending on finding a sheep.

Because sometimes  it does. Or should, anyway.

I had a ridiculous amount of fun writing this book. I hope you'll have fun with it too.