A Very Scalzi Christmas
Book cover by Natalie Metzger
Author	John Scalzi
Audio read by	Full cast
Cover artist	Natalie Metzger
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Subterranean Press
Publication date	November 2019
Pages	144
ISBN	978-1-59606-932-9

A Very Scalzi Christmas is a Christmas holiday-themed short story collection by John Scalzi published in November 2019.

Ho Ho Intro, or, the Reason for the Season
Science Fictional Thanksgiving Grace
A Bitter November
The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time
An Interview with Santa's Lawyer
A Personal Top 10 of Things That Are Not Titles to Christmas Songs and/or Lifetime Holiday Movies and Honestly I Don't Understand Why
Christmas in July
Interview with Santa's Reindeer Wrangler
8 Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Your Favorite Holiday Music
Jackie Jones and Melrose Mandy
An Interview with the Christmas Bunny
Jangle the Elf Grants Wishes
Script Notes on the Birth of Jesus
Sarah's Sister
An Interview with the Nativity Innkeeper
Resolutions for the New Year: A Bullet Point List

Reception

The collection was reviewed by Locus Magazine,^[1] Publishers Weekly,^[2] Kirkus Reviews,^[3] and Fantasy Literature.^[4]

References

^ Cushman, Carolyn (November 2019). "Carolyn Cushman Reviews A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi and Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw". Locus Magazine. No. 706. p. 29.
^ "Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Book Review: A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi. Subterranean, $40 (144p) ISBN 978-1-59606-932-9". Publishers Weekly. July 30, 2019.
^ "A Very Scalzi Christmas | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. No. October 1, 2019. September 13, 2019.
^ Jones, Tadiana (December 28, 2020). "A Very Scalzi Christmas: The lighter side of Christmas | Fantasy Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Book and Audiobook Reviews". Fantasy Literature.

v t e John Scalzi
Old Man's War series	Old Man's War (2005) The Ghost Brigades (2006) The Last Colony (2007) Zoe's Tale (2008) The Human Division (2013) The End of All Things (2015)
The Interdependency	The Collapsing Empire (2017) The Consuming Fire (2018) The Last Emperox (2020)
Lock In	Lock In (2014) Head On (2018)
The Dispatcher	The Dispatcher (2016) Murder by Other Means (2020) Travel by Bullet (2022)
Other novels	Agent to the Stars (2005) The Android's Dream (2006) Fuzzy Nation (2011) Redshirts (2012) The Kaiju Preservation Society (2022) Starter Villain (2023)
Shorter works	The God Engines (2009) "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons" (2011) A Very Scalzi Christmas (2019)

Christmas-themed literature

Novels and
novellas

The Story of the Other Wise Man (1859) by Henry van Dyke
Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938) by Agatha Christie
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) by Valentine Davies
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians (1968) by August Derleth
The Shepherd (1975) by Frederick Forsyth
Nothing Lasts Forever (1979) by Roderick Thorp
The Christmas Mystery (Julemysteriet, 1992) by Jostein Gaarder
Skipping Christmas (2001) by John Grisham
Deck the Halls (2003) by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Visions of Sugar Plums (2003) by Janet Evanovich
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (2004) by Christopher Moore
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008) by Maureen Johnson ("The Jubilee Express"), John Green ("A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle"), and Lauren Myracle ("The Patron Saint of Pigs")

By Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain (1848)

Short
stories

"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig, 1816) by E. T. A. Hoffmann "Christmas Eve" (Noch pered Rozhdestvom, 1832) by Nikolai Gogol (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka) "A House to Let" (1858) by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter "The Haunted House" (1859) conducted by Charles Dickens "A Christmas Eve" by Camillo Boito "Le Père Martin" (1888) by Ruben Saillens and unwittingly plagiarized as "Papa Panov's Special Christmas" by Leo Tolstoy Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (1890) by Anatole France "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" (1904) by L. Frank Baum "The Gift of the Magi" (1905) by O. Henry "The Dead" (1914) by James Joyce "The Festival" (1925) by H. P. Lovecraft Christmas Morning (1936) by Frank O'Connor "Christmas on Ganymede" (1942) by Isaac Asimov "The Greatest Gift" (1943) by Philip Van Doren Stern A Child's Christmas in Wales (1952) by Dylan Thomas "A Present for Big Nick" (1954) by Kurt Vonnegut, collected in Bagombo Snuff Box with the title "A Present for Big Saint Nick" "The Star" (1955) by Arthur C. Clarke "A Christmas Memory" (1956) by Truman Capote (published in Mademoiselle) "Christmas Party" (1957) by Rex Stout "The Innkeeper's Wife" (1958) by A. J. Cronin "Rush Call" (1960) by Stephen King "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor" (1978) by John Cheever "Fish Cheeks" (1987) by Amy Tan "The Junky's Christmas" (1989) by William S. Burroughs "Tidings of Comfort and Joy" (1992) by Gael Baudino "Sharpe's Christmas" (1994) by Bernard Cornwell "The Best Christmas Ever" (2004) by James Patrick Kelly "The Lump of Coal" (2004) by Lemony Snicket "Christmas with the Dead" (2010) by Joe R. Lansdale
By Hans Christian Andersen	"The Fir-Tree" (Grantræet, 1844) "The Little Match Girl" (Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, 1845)
By Agatha Christie	"The Clergyman's Daughter" (1929) "A Christmas Tragedy" (1932) "The Manhood of Edward Robinson" (1934) "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby" (1960)
By Fyodor Dostoevsky	"A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" (Yolka i svad'ba, 1848) "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" (Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke, 1876) from A Writer's Diary

Children's

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902) by L. Frank Baum The Box of Delights (1935) by John Masefield Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1939) by Robert L. May Madeline's Christmas (1956) by Ludwig Bemelmans How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) by Dr. Seuss The Story of Holly and Ivy (1958) by Rumer Godden The Polar Express (1985) by Chris Van Allsburg The Jolly Christmas Postman (1991) by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Waiting-for-Christmas Stories (1994) by Bethany Roberts Rocking Horse Christmas (1997) by Mary Pope Osborne and Ned Bittinger When Santa Fell to Earth (Als der Weihnachtsmann von Himmel fiel, 2004) by Cornelia Funke Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale (2004) by Martin Waddell The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition (2005) by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell Stick Man (2008) by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler The Man Who Could Be Santa (2008) by Joanna Wolper Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever (2019) by Matt Tavares
By Raymond Briggs	Father Christmas (1973) The Snowman (1978)
By Richard Paul Evans	The Christmas Box (1993) The Light of Christmas (2002)
By Astrid Lindgren	Brenda Brave Helps Grandmother (Kajsa Kavat hjälper mormor, 1950) A Calf for Christmas (När Bäckhultarn for till stan, 1951) The Tomten (Tomte är vaken, 1960) Christmas in the Stable (Jul i stallet, 1961) The Tomten and the Fox (Räven och Tomten, 1965) The Runaway Sleigh Ride (Titta Madicken, det snöar!, 1983)