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Name: Redshirts

Full title: Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
Author: John Scalzi
Year: 2012
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Popularity: 6.7
Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Humor

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ISBN:
9780765334794
0765334798
Winner of the Hugo award for Best Novel in 2013.
Winner of the Locus award for Best Science Fiction in 2013.

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 thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory.

Life couldn't be better...until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that:
(1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces
(2) the ship's captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations
(3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.

Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. 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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