Redshirts

Redshirts, as a joke story based on a Star Trek trope, is a fast, light, humorous novel to read. It isn't very long, but I kind of got the feeling that the joke might have been better suited to shorter fiction. The writing is very choppy, simplistic, and dominated by dialogue. While this style often underlines the absurd humor nicely, it also gets old after a while. As the meta-fictional elements became more dominant, the story took some surprisingly serious turns (given the ridiculous premise). I can see how this is a novel that will not be to everyone's tastes, I got a lot of laughs from its funnier moments.

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