A+++ I am so angry with myself for not listening to this audiobook sooner! This is the perfect spoof/breaking-the-fourth-wall scifi story. Think Star Trek with the ridiculousness and shenanigans amped up to 1,000. And then the "protagonists" realize that they're the extras in a badly written sc...
After I finished the second book in the Inheritance Cycle, I said I needed to take a break and read something that wasn’t (ripping off) Star Wars. So what do I do? I pick up a book ripping off—in a very self-aware and satirical fashion—Star Trek: The Original Series. I have no regrets. This book...
"Let us violate cakes together"In "Redshirts" by John Scalzi(*day dreaming*)I applied for a job to be a licensed fiction writer of sorts last year - it was working on flavour text and copy for the Star Trek Franchise. The interview was heavily focused on my ability to write within the constraints of...
As a fan of the original Star Trek, all spin offs, and the movies, I was giddy with the very concept of Redshirts. Primarily following Ensign Andrew Dahl as he begins serving on the UU Capital Ship Intrepid, the story takes listeners on a wild journey that both mocks and glorifies the original TV sh...
Redshirts stars Ensign Andrew Dahl, newly assigned to the starship Intrepid. It doesn’t take long for him to notice that something weird is going on. Everyone reacts strangely to any mention of away missions, and the Intrepid’s crew has a much higher than normal mortality rate. In an effort to avoid...
By all rights this light-hearted riff on the "redshirts always get killed" trope from Star Trek should have given me a headache. After all, time travel plots always cross my eyes, and muddle that in with a crossover between fiction and "reality" - well, it's just as well that the cheerful flippancy ...
Redshirts was a very fast read, light and funny, but with some depth mixed in here and there also. It was an especially nice change of pace after my last couple of books which were slower reads for me. It probably helped that I loved the original Star Trek series, because I was able to appreciate ...
Redshirts is, for the most part, absolutely hilarious. Right from the opening pages, John Scalzi’s writing has you snickering and leaning back in your seat to enjoy the read. This completely unsubtle poke at the ridiculousness of everyone’s favorite science fiction TV show will entertain you for hou...
This is a hard novel to review without spoiling the surprises and fun. I don't think it's too much of a spoiler to say that this book is a very meta homage to classic sci-fi, especially the original Star Trek. This was my first time reading Scalzi, and I found the prose fast and amusing - the pages ...
A story first: In the 90's, I had a bumper sticker on my car, right next to my Picard/Riker '00 election sticker. On the right side of it was a line drawing of the Star Trek classic series transporter, with an outline of a crew member, the only thing solid about him being his red shirt. The text bes...
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