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Posted 2015-04-02 9:39 PM (#10019 - in reply to #10014)
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dustydigger - 2015-04-02 3:35 PM

Then it was on to Redshirts,John Scalzi's amusing metafiction,full of wry affectionate sly digs at Star Trek. Some crew members on a spaceship where every time there is an away mission someone diescome to realize that they are actually expendable extras in a badly written TV science fiction series,and contrive to go back and change the series narrative. I know many people didnt like this book,but I am a sucker for metafiction.and loved allm the digs ar Star Trek.Learning at the end that Scalzi was a writer on Stargate was just the cherry on the cake. Great fun!
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Redshirts is on my reading list. I knew about the Star Trek allusion, but nothing else about the book. The only other Scalzi I've read is his Old Man's War, which I thought was pretty good. So now I'm looking forward to Redshirts. I vaguely remember seeing a TV show or a movie that had a similar theme. A Star Trek-like TV show cast (starring Tim Allen, I think) that thought they were actually on a mission battling real bad guys

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