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Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
sandstone78: Expendable also follows the lives of space exploration crew members who are considered expendable. The protagonist, Festina Ramos, has a large, port-wine-colored birthmark across her face; as "everyone" knows in the setting, people form less of an emotional attachment to ugly people and therefore care less when they die, making them perfect candidates for almost-certain-death missions.… (altro)
RobinWebster: Tigerman and Redshirts are fun, fast-paced, quirky, high-stakes adventures. Both authors navigate ridiculous scenarios with confidence and zest, avoiding silliness through characters with believable, relatable emotions and motivations.
PitcherBooks: Happy Bureaucracy 1 (a stand alone) was among the best SFF dark humor satire that I've read. It's difficult to hit just the right note with that genre but Fitzgerald did so with this novel.
It is rare to find such a fun SFF stand-out. The last book of this specialty genre that I found this enjoyable was Red Shirts by Scalzi.… (altro)
If there's one thing I appreciate in a writer (or any creative type), it's a determined resistance to being one-dimensional. Given the basic idea of this book, Scalzi could have simply done a tap dance on the foibles of sci-fi television, and, I've no doubt, he would have made it entertaining fare. Shoot, look at [b:Night of the Living Trekkies|7884969|Night of the Living Trekkies|Kevin David Anderson|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320398394s/7884969.jpg|11097770] by Kevin David Anderson & Sam Stall. That's no thinking man's book, but I've read it four times already. Instead, what Scalzi's done here is to take the notion of the Redshirt and invert it. In other words, he's made them human.
The Redshirt phenomenon, for the uninitiated, comes from Star Trek. In the T.V. show, the lowest ranking crew members always seemed to wear red uniforms and always seemed to be on the business end of a gruesome death. The main characters would escape largely unscathed, with only a passing look of thoughtful regret to mark the loss of some poor ensign. Although, curiously, Captain Picard wore a red uniform. Explain that one, Trekkies! Huh? I don't recall him getting eaten by some weird space monkey! But I digress.
So, in this book, the main characters are not on the U.S.S. Enterprise, but rather the Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union. Now, granted, there's a lot similarity between the two, and Scalzi crafts some pretty funny sections which take the mickey out of Star Trek and other shows (especially toward the beginning). Ultimately though, the author pushes the novel's basic premise, life on a starship from a Redshirt's point of view, into thought-provoking territory. As it progresses, the book spends as much time considering the nature of self-determination as it does the culture of Hollywood. As he has done elsewhere, Scalzi balances fun and philosophy in a finely-paced story. From a craft perspective, I was a little surprised, and maybe a bit put off, by the three Codas at the end. They provide expanded looks for some of the story's secondary characters in a narrative style which is a significant departure from the novel. That said, the more I read, the more intrigued I became. They added a depth of emotion and perspective which both suited the book's themes and made it a more complete story.
Although I've watched various Star Trek shows in fits and starts, I am a long way from calling myself a fan. There are whole swaths of the mythos which I don't know or care to understand. None of that affected my enjoyment a bit. As long as you've heard of Star Trek (and now that you've read this review, you have), you can count on the author to take care of the rest. ( )
John Scalzi parte de um tema recorrente no universo Star Trek (por que os tripulantes "secundários" costumam ser mortos nos episódios?) para produzir um texto bastante original na construção de uma explicação (im)plausível e provocadora. ( )
Lots of fun. Couldn't stop grinning from the first chapter. Even teared up a little towards the end. The homage is fun enough, but then it takes a meta twist that will leave you thinking. ( )
This was a really fun ride. Part campy sci-fi that you already know, part breaking the fourth wall, part philosophical introspective about life. Just what I needed to pick up right now though ... fun, easy to read, and didn't disappoint. ( )
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Redshirts is dedicated to the following:
To Wil Wheaton, whom I heart with all the hearty heartiness a heart can heart;
To Mykal Burns, my friend since the TRS-80 days at the Glendora Public Library;
And to Joe Mallozzi and Brad Wright, who took me to space with them.
Incipit
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From the top of the large boulder he sat on, Ensign Tom Davis looked across the expanse of the cave toward Captain Lucius Abernathy, Science Officer Q'eeng and Chief Engineer Paul West perched on a second, larger boulder, and thought, Well, this sucks.
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"Someone who knows that no matter what, you don't deal upward on the chain of command," Dahl said. The crewman grinned.
"I don't think luck had much to do with it."
"That's it? 'The Box'?" Dahl said.
"If it makes you feel better to think it's an experimental quantum-based computer with advanced inductive artificial intelligence capacity, whose design origins comes to us from an advanced but extinct race of warrior-engineers, then you can think about it that way," Collins said.
"Is that actually what it is?" Dahl asked.
"Sure," Collins said . . .
“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug,” Cassaway said, dryly.
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Samantha smiles again and puts her arm around Nick as they walk.
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
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The Redshirt phenomenon, for the uninitiated, comes from Star Trek. In the T.V. show, the lowest ranking crew members always seemed to wear red uniforms and always seemed to be on the business end of a gruesome death. The main characters would escape largely unscathed, with only a passing look of thoughtful regret to mark the loss of some poor ensign. Although, curiously, Captain Picard wore a red uniform. Explain that one, Trekkies! Huh? I don't recall him getting eaten by some weird space monkey! But I digress.
So, in this book, the main characters are not on the U.S.S. Enterprise, but rather the Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union. Now, granted, there's a lot similarity between the two, and Scalzi crafts some pretty funny sections which take the mickey out of Star Trek and other shows (especially toward the beginning). Ultimately though, the author pushes the novel's basic premise, life on a starship from a Redshirt's point of view, into thought-provoking territory. As it progresses, the book spends as much time considering the nature of self-determination as it does the culture of Hollywood. As he has done elsewhere, Scalzi balances fun and philosophy in a finely-paced story. From a craft perspective, I was a little surprised, and maybe a bit put off, by the three Codas at the end. They provide expanded looks for some of the story's secondary characters in a narrative style which is a significant departure from the novel. That said, the more I read, the more intrigued I became. They added a depth of emotion and perspective which both suited the book's themes and made it a more complete story.
Although I've watched various Star Trek shows in fits and starts, I am a long way from calling myself a fan. There are whole swaths of the mythos which I don't know or care to understand. None of that affected my enjoyment a bit. As long as you've heard of Star Trek (and now that you've read this review, you have), you can count on the author to take care of the rest. (