Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018. Signed Limited Edition. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. Signed by John Scalzi on the publisher's Special Signed Edition page. This is 563 of 1000. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($40.00) with faint crinkles to spine ends, else bright and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 6" X 8 1/4" tall. 429 pages.

"'Virtue signaling' is a phrase the dim and bigoted use when they want to discount other people expressing the idea that it would be nice if we could all be essentially and fundamentally decent to each other." -- John Scalzi

For twenty years now—yes, twenty—John Scalzi has been writing on his blog Whatever, writing about, well, whatever: politics, writing, cats, the internet and the great social and cultural events of our times. In that time he's gone from being just another crank online to being a bestselling, award-winning crank, i.e., the very best kind of crank there is.

With Virtue Signaling and Other Heresies, Scalzi looks back on the years 2013 through 2018. In this volume, Scalzi delves through the final term of Obama and the ushering in of the Trump years, surveys the increasingly-hostile online landscape, goes to the movies, and talks on subject ranging from #MeToo to the teachers who shaped him growing up. Through it all, Scalzi's distinct voice—funny, sarcastic, passionate, sometimes angry, and honed by two decades of daily writing served up to hundreds of thousands of readers monthly—is on full display.