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Scalzi says here that he intended it to be funny https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/726k57/comment/dnhg4v7/ https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/726k57

• mcphage 4y ago
  I definitely thought it was going to be funny, but instead of "ha ha, we're all going to die!" it was "oh god, we're all going to die!". Still, by the time I got to the final bit (if you've read it, you know the part I'm talking about), I thought it was really excellent.