Redshirts

This book grew in my estimation with the coda at the end. The bulk of the book is a take off on sci-fi TV series. Turns out that what happens on a TV series running in our time is being mimicked on a starship in the future, resulting in a lot of people dieing, except, of course, the officers who are the stars of the show. In the future, Ensign Andrew Dahl and his friends figure this out and realize that their days are numbered if they do not do something. So act they do and manage to make a change (although I'm not sure things actually turned out as they negotiated). This part of the book was no more than 3* -- a fun read without a lot of depth.

But the three Coda after this main story geot this book an additional star from me. The Coda, done in first, second, and then third person, concern minor characters in the main story and explore philisophical issues raised in the main story. The first was pretty funny, but the second two, not at all. It was a twist I had not expected and really enjoyed.