Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas

by John Scalzi

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2012

About the author

John Scalzi, having declared his absolute boredom with biographies, disappeared in a puff of glitter and lilac scent.

(If you want to contact John, using the mail function here is a really bad way to do it. Go to his site and use the contact information you find there.)

Reviews

[Michael Rocharde · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous fun!

I’ll admit upfront that it took me a little while to get into this book, and I wasn’t sure I would finish it, but suddenly I was fully engaged and invested in it. It’s very clever and very funny; so is its author who has an imagination that I’d sell my left leg to have. Enough said.

[Melanie R · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first Scalzi book I read was Starter Villain. It was fun, funny and not at all cerebral. Since then, I've read When the Moon Hits Your Eye and now Redshirts. Each of these has been humorous, but also a bit more thought-provoking than I would have guessed based on my first read of his.

[x x x · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun

Interesting and funny with too many zany twists to note. You'll enjoy it more with a bit of 1900's sci fi tv series knowledge. Sto

[Wildmaven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Last 3 Chapters ruined it.

Loved it until around 80% when the Codas began. It lost me there and it’s a shame because the book was so much fun until then.

[Nolan Casimir · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for lovers of Star Trek

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

LOVED this book. So clever with a built-in analysis and deconstruction of storytelling narrative.

[Daydreamer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the story. Never really got connected with the characters, and got them confused a few times. That didn't really take away from the story, and that could have totally been on me, I tend to be that way if too many are introduced too quickly.

Very happy I read the book. Fun read.