The story winks playfully at the reader with references to techobabble, bombastic battles, and miracle solutions. It is a wonderful sci-fi book that takes the concept of a multi verse and runs with it to infinity and beyond. If you don't know what a c...  Read More

John scalzi has a delightful appreciation for the absurd and a wonderfully snarky observational humor. Scalzi does a good job of bringing the generic, disposable redshirts to life, and getting us to empathize and care about them.

Book seems tailor made for you. Unexpected but added a lot of heart and sincerity to the events of the book. I'll play coy on the reveal, even if it's fairly obvious.

Redshirts by john scalzi is a fun and clever book. It is a great parody and it is from a redshirt point of view. Everyone has their role in the grand scifi narrative…even the lower ranks.

It really irritates me when characters are constantly quipping back and forth in the middle of a conversation. The story literally stops at 75% on kindle and then the last 25% is the author inserting himself into the story and trying to be funny. We g...  Read More

Give it a pass unless you're really starved for halfway decent scifi. Scalzi's ok with a plot but not much with hard science. The fact that this particular scalzi work won the hugo award seems baffling.

Don't hope it will get better and plow through; it gets worse. This one…is a meta too far.