5/10/2023 0 Comments Redshirts by John Scalzi![]() Tor Books If youve watched any episodes of the original 'Star Trek,' you know that wearing a red. Agent: Ethan Ellenberg, Ethan Ellenberg Agency. John Scalzis sci-fi comedic novel 'Redshirts' will soon be a limited-series TV show on FX. ![]() Scalzi explores life among the doomed redshirts with ingeniously morbid glee, but that’s not enough to save the story from collapsing in on itself. The rest of the book is increasingly strange and unfunny as Dahl breaks the fourth wall to demand answers. Sadly, and all too soon, Scalzi reveals an explanation that neither surprises nor satisfies. ![]() The first third of the book is a darkly comic romp, skewering common plot holes and lazy genre conventions while making the reader eager for the ingenious reason for the “coincidental” deaths. ![]() As Dahl’s fellow officers drop like flies and backstab each other to escape away duty, he decides to figure out exactly what’s going on. Redshirts is John Scalzi’s Hugo Award-winning novel of the starship ensigns who were expendable.until they started comparing notes. In a world where junior starship officers inevitably and dramatically die on planetside missions-a problem any Star Trek fan will be familiar with-ensign Andrew Dahl joins the crew of the Universal Union ship Intrepid, the pride of the fleet, and quickly realizes his life is at risk. ![]()
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