Redshirts
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575134300 (0575134305)
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
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...
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