Redshirts

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Title: Redshirts
Author: John Scalzi
Publisher: Tor
Year: 2012
317 pages

Many of Scalzi's books are like the block print Indian bedspreads you buy in a head shop--they're colorful, they have a lot going on, and they serve their purpose. At the same time, the closer you look, the blurrier and less differentiated the details appear, and the weave is loose.

Redshirts is fun for Trekkies, probably more fun for adolescents, and a reasonable way to spend a few hours poking fun at schlock SF writing. It cost about the same as the bedspread and gives the same amount of pleasure.