Redshirts Chapters 14 eBook John Scalzi
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THEY WERE EXPENDABLE . . . UNTIL THEY STARTED COMPARING NOTES
A free preview of Redshirts, the astonishing new science-fiction yarn from John Scalzi.
"Redshirts is (a) ruin-your-underwear funny, (b) a mind-bender sure to Philip K. Dick you over, and (c) absurdly rich in ideas and feeling. John Scalzi sets his imagination to STUN and scores a direct hit. Read on and prosper." - Joe Hill, New York Times-bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.
Life couldn't be better . . . until Andrew begins to realize that (1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship's senior officers always survive these confrontations, and (3) sadly, at least one low-ranking crew member is invariably killed. Unsurprisingly, the savvier crew members belowdecks avoid Away Missions at all costs.
Then Andrew stumbles on information that transforms his and his colleagues' understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is . . . and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.
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Redshirts Chapters 14 eBook John Scalzi
Scalzi is evil, there's no other word for it. Yes, I was excited to read Redshirts, and I will be buying it as soon as it's available. But, unable to resists torturing readers, he released this sample way in advance, meaning I read it voraciously and was left wanting more. And now I have to wait. Damn you, Scalzi!Ok, the review - you know what you're getting with Scalzi, if you've read any of his books before. His characterisation is bang on, his stories are unpredictable but drag you in and grip you, and his prose is so easy on the eye and flowing that you suddenly find the dinner has burned, the cat hasn't been fed in a week and what the hell it's DARK now?
Bring on the rest of the book, I'm ready.
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Redshirts Chapters 14 eBook John Scalzi Reviews
This is the first work by John Scalzi that I bought. I immediately jumped to "Redshirts In Three Codas" the more complete story. I'm a sucker for young people thrown into challenges beyond their qualification, who ultimately succeed spectacularly beyond what a stogified military & political bureaucracy would allow.
Since reading this book, I've read the "Old Man's War" series, which I highly recommend. I just finished reading Scalzi's "Agent to the Stars". Must admit its premise wasn't my normal type of reading, but when the time comes to write a review, it will be the first 5-star rating I've every given. It was hilarious and wonderfully entertaining!
I ordered the first four chapters for my , then in the summer of 2015, read the entire novel for a Science Fiction class at my local community college. It could easily have been just a parody of Star Trek, but wound up being a thought-provoking, comedic look at metafiction and at the creative process of television series under the pressures of production. It also has some poignant moments, which despite my being the least romantic person alive, did touch me.
This is a fast read, and pretty funny. It is my first Scalzi book, and it won't be my last. I was very pleased with the writing and the story, almost. The section at the end was such an abrupt change that I found myself wishing he had stopped after the asteroid (no spoilers so that will mean nothing until you read it). Scalzi has a wicked wit and pokes fun at TV sci-fi and takes a look at life off the bridge. I think anyone who is a Trek fan or likes to laugh at the old Sci-fi classics will really enjoy this story. My only wish would have been for more of the story and none of the codas.
Like the subject line says redshirts is a fun parody of Star Trek The Original Series. We get to see this starship's adventures from the perspective of the worker bees that make the ship run, the behind the scenes guys that make the bridge crew look so good. I downloaded the first 4 chapters for free and it was a very quick read, I like John Scalzi anyways having read the Old Man's War series, I really like his sense of humor. If you're on the bubble, download the 4 chapters for and decide for yourself.
If you don't own a , iPod, iPhone, or Andoid device, you can still use the reader for Windows and then read the 4 chapters there before deciding to buy the dead tree edition.
Fun read! I enjoyed it quite a bit. Being an avid scifi fan, this was just right in tone and pacing. Scalzi has a deft touch with humor and I could tell he wrote this with a lot of love for "Star Trek" and the poor re-shirted security officers.
You ever notice how in the original Star Trek series everyone important to running the ship beams down to a planet? The Captain, Chief Engineer, Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Science Officer all go exploring. Of course, the people who die are the unknown red shirts. Galaxy Quest contained a parody of this observation.
Instead of the United Federation of Plants and the Enterprise, this book sample has the Universal Union (dub U) and the Intrepid. The people aboard the ship have definitely noticed that bridge crew tend to survive away missions while the other team members get eaten, dissolved or meet their end in some other grisly fashion. These four chapters follow some new members of the Intrepid. Very quickly the new crew members discover that they are replacing people who have died as a result of away missions. And that the old hands aboard ship have learned to stay away from away missions.
This is a well written and edited sample of a larger book to come. John Scalzi has written Old Man's War, The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation and other books. I will definitely buy this book when it comes out. Maybe not an e version, but I will buy it.
What's going on here, anyway? Things are odd on the star ship Intrepid. Or are they? Crew on away missions regularly die in irregular ways. Ice sharks? Those who survive have learned key safety rules. Stay away from Abernathy and Q'eeng. If you can't avoid an away mission stick with Kerensky. Why? Because that's the way to survive! The fun is in trying to figure out what the real narrative is. And Scalzi doesn't cheat. He always reveals the true story...
Scalzi is evil, there's no other word for it. Yes, I was excited to read Redshirts, and I will be buying it as soon as it's available. But, unable to resists torturing readers, he released this sample way in advance, meaning I read it voraciously and was left wanting more. And now I have to wait. Damn you, Scalzi!
Ok, the review - you know what you're getting with Scalzi, if you've read any of his books before. His characterisation is bang on, his stories are unpredictable but drag you in and grip you, and his prose is so easy on the eye and flowing that you suddenly find the dinner has burned, the cat hasn't been fed in a week and what the hell it's DARK now?
Bring on the rest of the book, I'm ready.
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