Redshirts
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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 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, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology...

Someone recommended the book to me since I am a Star Trek fan, it’s definitely a neat perspective. Think “Lower Decks” but more self-aware and meta.

The audio version of the book being read by Wil Wheaton makes it even better.

  •  realChem   ( @realChem@beehaw.org ) 
    3•11 months ago

    I had a lot of fun with Redshirts, it doesn’t take itself too seriously it’s just a good time. I find that a lot of Scalzi’s stuff is like that. I think my favorites have been The Kaiju Preservation Society (audio version also narrated by Wil Wheaton), and the Lock-In books (in which the main character is never explicitly gendered, so there are two audio versions of each book: one narrated by Wil Wheaton, and one by Amber Benson).