正如Yherajk最终找到一个独特的方式来将他们介绍给人类，《星探》的出版之路也非比寻常。

    Agent to the Stars was John Scalzi's first novel, a book that he wrote because he "simply curious if he could." While Scalzi had written for newspapers and comic non-fiction, he had never written a novel before.

    《星探》是斯科尔奇的第一部小说，当他在为报社撰稿及创作连环写实性漫画时好奇自己否能写小说，这就是他写这本书的原由。

    He also decided that instead of writing a book for the purpose of selling it, he would write it just for writing's sake. This decision, he says, "freed me from a lot of the usual angst and pain that comes from writing a first novel."

    他决定为写作而创作 ......