Redshirts

Redshirts is John Scalzi's 2013 Hugo and Locus award winning novel. In my ongoing attempt to read more "Literature" these days I am looking to the award winning and nominated novels as my guides. If they were all as entertaining as this novel my edification would be so much easier!

Redshirts is going to be a hard novel to review with out giving away spoilers because the major plot twist is the plot. Lets put it this way. If you know anything about "Startrek" and the red-shirt mythos you can probably conceive of this plot.

I loved the tongue-in-cheek nature of this novel. It was an extremely fast read due mostly to the fact that it was written almost entirely in dialogue.

Redshirts is the first work of John Scalzi I have read, but if this is an example of his work, I will most assuredly look for more!

4.5 of 5 stars