![]() ![]() ![]() Here Scalzi follows it through to a logical literary development. The plot develops that old adage that was part of the Star Trek mythos: cast members that you have never seen before, usually wearing a red shirt as part of the security detail, were often killed off in the first few minutes of an episode for the sake of tension and plot development, whilst Kirk, Spock and co (the main cast members) looked on. The plot’s pretty straightforward initially: an alternative version of Star Trek, without enough specifics to be sued over. It is perhaps one of the signs of a well-developed genre that it is, from time to time, able to laugh at itself, to accept the clichés and the impossibilities, to look at what it does and accept with wry humour that all is not as deeply serious and pretentious as it would like to be.Īnd with that in mind, Redshirts is one of those books not to be taken too seriously. ![]() Published by Gollancz UK, November 2012 (Review copy received.)Īh, humour. ![]()
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