Redshirts by John Scalzi – review

Redshirtsby John Scalzi is a science fiction piece riffing on the fate of the infamousStar Trek “redshirts” – those hapless crew members that beam down to the planet with main cast members and always seem to die. The book starts by looking at the situation from the crew member’s perspective, as a group of new recruits begin to realise that their superior officers seem to be miraculously surviving while all around them anonymous crew are slaughtered week after week. The rest of the crew has de...