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Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
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.… (més)
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.… (més)
El llibre comença molt bé. En una nau espacial que viatja per l'espai fent missions de descobriment i colonització, els tripulants s'adonen que per raons desconegudes molts moren en circumstàncies absurdes durant les misions.
Aquest punt de partida poc original, permet a Scalzi fer un exercici de metaliteratura d'allò més interessant i que farà les delicies dels amants de la ciència-ficció... fins a la meitat del llibre.
En la segona meitat, i sobretot l'últim terç, l'argument perd tot l'interès. Els afegits finals tenen algun aspecte interessant, però quan arribes allà ja estàs tan cansat que tot sembla absurd i innecessari. Una llàstima... ( )
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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.
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
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Aquest punt de partida poc original, permet a Scalzi fer un exercici de metaliteratura d'allò més interessant i que farà les delicies dels amants de la ciència-ficció... fins a la meitat del llibre.
En la segona meitat, i sobretot l'últim terç, l'argument perd tot l'interès. Els afegits finals tenen algun aspecte interessant, però quan arribes allà ja estàs tan cansat que tot sembla absurd i innecessari. Una llàstima... (