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El alferez Andrew Dahl acaba de ser destinado al Intrepid, buque insignia de la Union Universal desde 2456. Sus perspectivas no podrian ser mejores...hasta que se percata de que todas y cada una de las misiones de desembarco implican algun tipo de enfrentamiento letal con fuerzas alienigenas que siempre, siempre, acaban con la muerte de al menos uno de los tripulantes de bajo rango. Nada puede preparar al alferez Dahl para lo que esta a punto de descubrir acerca de su destino y el de sus companeros. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.… (más)
sandstone78: Expendable also follows the lives of space exploration crew members who are considered expendable. The protagonist, Festina Ramos, has a large, port-wine-colored birthmark across her face; as "everyone" knows in the setting, people form less of an emotional attachment to ugly people and therefore care less when they die, making them perfect candidates for almost-certain-death missions.… (más)
RobinWebster: Tigerman and Redshirts are fun, fast-paced, quirky, high-stakes adventures. Both authors navigate ridiculous scenarios with confidence and zest, avoiding silliness through characters with believable, relatable emotions and motivations.
PitcherBooks: Happy Bureaucracy 1 (a stand alone) was among the best SFF dark humor satire that I've read. It's difficult to hit just the right note with that genre but Fitzgerald did so with this novel.
It is rare to find such a fun SFF stand-out. The last book of this specialty genre that I found this enjoyable was Red Shirts by Scalzi.… (más)
Lots of fun. Couldn't stop grinning from the first chapter. Even teared up a little towards the end. The homage is fun enough, but then it takes a meta twist that will leave you thinking. ( )
This was a really fun ride. Part campy sci-fi that you already know, part breaking the fourth wall, part philosophical introspective about life. Just what I needed to pick up right now though ... fun, easy to read, and didn't disappoint. ( )
Another book with a twist! I seem to be reading a lot of those these days.
This starts as funny sci-fi poking fun at campy TV shows but turns into something else entirely and ends on a surprisingly sweet note.
I liked it and reading it this weekend (soon after the movie shootings in CO) the message of living a meaningful life and being happy and expressing love for those who are most important to you hits especially hard.
The final words from Jenkins are perfect. Now i have to go find my husband and hug him. ( )
Fun little romp with an interesting philosophical question woven through it: how would you react if you found out that your life was being scripted (badly), or how would you react if you found out that you were inadvertently scripting people's lives? Add in some Star Trek in-jokes, and you have a sweet story with a chewy center. ( )
Amusing premise where the characters realize to their horror that they are expendable supporting characters on a bad sci-fi show...then unite to try to do something about it. Starts off strong but the joke wears thin after awhile, and it gets too metafictional. The last few chapters have a completely different tone than the light humor of the rest of the book; I didn't like them in my first read, but found them to be rather moving on a re-read. ( )
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Redshirts is dedicated to the following:
To Wil Wheaton, whom I heart with all the hearty heartiness a heart can heart;
To Mykal Burns, my friend since the TRS-80 days at the Glendora Public Library;
And to Joe Mallozzi and Brad Wright, who took me to space with them.
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From the top of the large boulder he sat on, Ensign Tom Davis looked across the expanse of the cave toward Captain Lucius Abernathy, Science Officer Q'eeng and Chief Engineer Paul West perched on a second, larger boulder, and thought, Well, this sucks.
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"Someone who knows that no matter what, you don't deal upward on the chain of command," Dahl said. The crewman grinned.
"I don't think luck had much to do with it."
"That's it? 'The Box'?" Dahl said.
"If it makes you feel better to think it's an experimental quantum-based computer with advanced inductive artificial intelligence capacity, whose design origins comes to us from an advanced but extinct race of warrior-engineers, then you can think about it that way," Collins said.
"Is that actually what it is?" Dahl asked.
"Sure," Collins said . . .
“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug,” Cassaway said, dryly.
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Samantha smiles again and puts her arm around Nick as they walk.
El alferez Andrew Dahl acaba de ser destinado al Intrepid, buque insignia de la Union Universal desde 2456. Sus perspectivas no podrian ser mejores...hasta que se percata de que todas y cada una de las misiones de desembarco implican algun tipo de enfrentamiento letal con fuerzas alienigenas que siempre, siempre, acaban con la muerte de al menos uno de los tripulantes de bajo rango. Nada puede preparar al alferez Dahl para lo que esta a punto de descubrir acerca de su destino y el de sus companeros. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
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