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Aug 28, 2014 Krissy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lawlz, audiobook, pgs-300-399, cover-color-red, read-before-2015

Extremely cheesy but very entertaining.

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Apr 06, 2023 Ketutar Jensen rated it really liked it

The beginning was fun. Reminded me of A Trekkie's Tale :-D
The visit to "our world" was a bit boring.
The codas... very nice. :-) I love the first, second, and third person :-D (you know, while they are stories of three different persons, they are also written in 1. 2. and 3. person POV :-D Brilliant!) ...more

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Sep 30, 2022 Debbie rated it really liked it

Although, in the past, I have been a big Star Trek fan pre-2000, I haven't been paying attention much in the modern era of movies and prequel show series. All the same, I really enjoyed this book far more than I expected - and I might be a little sorry that I put off reading it for so long. The first third of the book is a little odd, with the newcomers on the ship realizing something is weird, but not being quite sure what is going on and why. Almost exactly at 32% on my Kindle, they do find ou ...more

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Jun 16, 2019 Joanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, fantasy-sci-fi, 2019-read, rws-2019-summer

Absolutely delightful! Wil Wheaton is the perfect narrator for this meta send-up of Star Trek (and its ilk). The book has a touch of Jasper Fforde, where fictional characters are real but intertwined with their authors and stories, deep knowledge of science fiction tropes and a willingness to openly but lovingly mock them.

As always, Scalzi never takes himself too seriously, but manages to have something real to say anyway.

But in the end, this is light entertainment, not deep literature or even h ...more

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