It starts as a spin-off of Star Trek, and there are fun easter eggs that reference elements of that show. Martin signs new development deal with.This is a really fun book. Mass Effect 4 - Knights of the Old Republic 3.Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 2 (remaste.Solaris to publish Paul Kearney omnibus in early 2014.THE CITY AND THE CITY on stage in Chicago.Stephen Donaldson delivers last-ever THOMAS COVENA.Scott Lynch update on THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn.How the Next Generation Could Kill Gaming (as we k.GAME OF THRONES Season 3 Episode Titles Revealed.The novel is available now in the UK and USA. Redshirts (***) is an entertaining, easy read which will make you laugh for a bit but you will also completely forget about within a week. Scalzi is a funny writer (though not in the same league as the aforementioned writers) and the laughs keep things ticking over, but despite a couple of attempts to make serious points (most notably in the codas, where the laughs dry up but the prose style improves markedly) the novel is pretty lightweight and disposable. Stretched over 300 pages, the premise becomes rather thin. However, the premise of the novel is one that Douglas Adams threw into a TV documentary about his own life, explored and moved on from in about five minutes. Scalzi seems to be aping funny SF authors like Harry Harrison, Terry Pratchett (whose Guards! Guards! pursues a vaguely similar premise, but altogether more successfully) and Douglas Adams. The book starts off as a look at the workings of such a ship from the POV of the regular crewmen rather than the command crew (and yes, The Next Generation did a whole episode about that) but rapidly escalates into being a funny commentary on the aforementioned TV tropes before moving into a metafictional storyline about fictional characters coming to life before skewing sideways into a very ill-advised attempt at pathos (which falls completely flat due to a lack of decent characterisation, meaning we don't care). Anyone who hasn't (and Star Trek and its cheesier tropes - distressingly - are getting a bit long in the tooth these days) might find the book pretty pointless. It's a huge, nerdy in-joke that anyone who's ever sat through an episode of Star Trek should appreciate. Redshirts is John Scalzi's tribute to all of those unfortunate extras and minor characters whose sole purpose in life is to show up for ten minutes and then die in a feeble attempt to make the audience believe the main characters might be in danger.

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