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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;
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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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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting, and Andrew is even more thrilled to be assigned to the ship's xenobiology laboratory, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship's famous senior officers.
Life couldn't be better... until Andrew begins to realize that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship's captain, its chief science officers, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations, and (3) sadly, at least one low-ranked crew member is invariably killed.
Unsurprisingly, the savvier members belowdecks avoid Away Missions at all costs. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues' understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is... and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.
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I've deleted four sentences now, because each gave something of the plot away, and it's too much fun to ruin.
I read this over two days, and I have a job, four kids, and a house full of chores. Definitely difficult to put down. Definitely a fun read. Definitely worth your time and money, if you've ever watched (or enjoyed!) a crappy sci-fi show. (