John Scalzi
American author
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Oct 13, 2026
Talking Monsters with John Scalzi
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Don BoozerHOST
And I was wondering if you can talk about that intersection between these horrific scenes and the fact that you can make people laugh and how that helps to temper the horror or does it temper the horror? Yeah.

John ScalziGUEST
Well, and it's a very interesting thing because, again, going back to using the tropes of body horror, right, where you have, like, the thing or you have the fly or you have, you know, invasion of the body snatchers or something like that, all these things that people have in their head.

John ScalziGUEST
But I would argue that while I'm using those horror tropes – and there have been stories – That rather comedically use a lot of horror tropes.

John ScalziGUEST
What I'm using them for is I'm using the tools of horror for the use of a story that is contemporary humor based.
32 MINS LATER
Are Adventure Stories Dead? The Genre That Refuses to Die
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John ScalziGUEST
And I sat down, like in the middle of the thing, and, and by the time that I had seen it, it'd already become a phenomenon and had been out for months and months and months.

John ScalziGUEST
And I remember, you know, of course the credits roll and the, you know, John Williams, uh, fanfare happens.

John ScalziGUEST
Um, and then you see this spaceship zoom by, and immediately my brain is blown because it's the most realistic spaceship anybody's ever seen at that point.
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