Redshirts in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Dec 18, 2016 Chessa rated it really liked it

Shelves: comedy, sf_fantasy, own_it, sf-f-challenge

Great fun! Laughed out loud quite a bit (particularly in the beginning). I think I had tried to start this a while back and didn't get traction, but it was exactly what I needed this time around - all this to say, don't force it; wait until you're in the right mood! Any fan of any Star Trek franchise will have much to enjoy reading this, but it's not *just* a send-up, either - quite a few big questions being contemplated, which is one of my favorite things about science fiction in general. :) ...more

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Oct 12, 2021 Amanda rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: book-club, aliens-or-extraterrestrials, fiction, pov-multiple, sci-fi, hugo-related, movie-or-tv-or-gaming, retelling, scifi-space-opera, star-wars

Fall 2021 (October);
~ Sarah's Book Club, October
~ 1.5, not rounded up

Reader, I am a dyed in the wool Trekkie since birth, raised on it at my dad's knee, while he brushed my hair and I watched TOS and TNG growing up, and -- ???

Holy God, I was bored. Bored, bored, bored, bored. I tried really hard to like this, and I listened through the whole thing. The last coda was the only time I even cracked a smile. It never made me laugh. I never found it fitting. I know it's satirical writing on Star Tre ...more

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Jul 16, 2015 Elizabeth rated it really liked it

Lots of fun and totally accessible even if you are only an sometimes sci-fi geek.

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Aug 05, 2013 Kim rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

Clever clever clever! And funny. And then goes all meta for the last 80 pages and you're like "Whoa, alternate timelines, man. What is my life?" ...more

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