Redshirts by John Scalzi
In case you like Star Trek, you are going to laugh so much reading this book. If you like Star Wars, you are going to laugh also, because the story is mocking Star Trek. If you don't like sci fi at all you will laugh anyway, only will have to use a lot of your imagination!
Even though the book was not as good, it is still worth reading.. Especially because of the ending.. The last chapter / or 3 chapters/ are just mind blowing. Or at least for me they were. It is a different writing, it is something new and fresh. So even if the book disappoints you a little bit at the beginning (mainly due to the lack of explanation of certain situations) the ending saves it all and you are left with an impression of an awesome book and 'I wanna read some more' feeling.
I do not mind crazy ideas; in fact the whole point of the book is crazy, but I hate when things do not make sense (yes,even in a fiction they can make sense, especially in science fiction.. s-c-i-e-n-c-e people!! Therefore based on a fact) or I also hate when there are mistakes in the story. The book Redshirts has got all of it.
SPOILER ALERT:
What would happen if there would be a parallel universe? And what if you would have a double in that universe, how would you react?
But more than that, the book is about a red shirt crew members on a starship who die all too frequently. The newcomers of course want to avoid their own death. They realize something is just not right… (by the way, in the Star Trek: The Original Series, a guy in a red shirt (security detail) died almost in every episode. )
But what if this fiction we see on the screen, is not just a TV show? What if there is a parallel universe where the guy really dies, because of the way the script is written? And in our universe, the actor just walks off the set after the last shot, totally unharmed? However whatever is filmed, becomes a reality for these guys from the parallel universe.
But more than that, the book is about a red shirt crew members on a starship who die all too frequently. The newcomers of course want to avoid their own death. They realize something is just not right… (by the way, in the Star Trek: The Original Series, a guy in a red shirt (security detail) died almost in every episode. )
But what if this fiction we see on the screen, is not just a TV show? What if there is a parallel universe where the guy really dies, because of the way the script is written? And in our universe, the actor just walks off the set after the last shot, totally unharmed? However whatever is filmed, becomes a reality for these guys from the parallel universe.
The plot is very very nice, however there is one major glitch- when in our universe the studio is filming an episode, and people are dying… why on earth the people in the parallel universe do exactly what is written in the script? Even if it is against their better judgment? Scalzi explains this multiple times by saying that the characters just doze off, sort of get influenced by some higher power and are doing things which they themselves do not understand why. And then he suddenly stops explaining this phenomena and the reader just have to take it for granted. Writers prerogative, I suppose.
Saying all this, I am going to download another of Scalzi's book.
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| ST:The Original Series, the ones who die on the away missions are always the crew in red |
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