{"id":204,"date":"2025-07-02T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/book\/redshirts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:03:30","slug":"redshirts","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/?book=redshirts","title":{"rendered":"Redshirts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Redshirts<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\"> is John Scalzi\u2019s Hugo Award-winning novel of the starship ensigns who were expendable&#8230;until they started comparing notes.<\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. <\/span><span><\/p>\n<p>Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship <\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Intrepid<\/span><span>, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It\u2019s a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on &#8220;Away Missions&#8221; alongside the starship\u2019s famous senior officers.<\/p>\n<p>Life couldn\u2019t be better\u2026until Andrew begins to realize that (1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship\u2019s senior officers always survive these confrontations, and (3) sadly, at least one low-ranking crew member is invariably killed. Unsurprisingly, the savvier crew members belowdecks avoid Away Missions at all costs. Then Andrew stumbles on information that transforms his and his colleagues\u2019 understanding of what the starship <\/span><span class=\"a-text-italic\">Intrepid<\/span><span> really is\u2026and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">With a new introduction by Mary Robinette Kowal, author of the Hugo-winning <\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Calculating Stars.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redshirts is John Scalzi\u2019s Hugo Award-winning novel of the starship ensigns who were expendable&#8230;until they started comparing notes. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"parent":0,"template":"","book-category":[64,54,55,39],"book-series":[],"book-author":[62,63],"class_list":["post-204","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book-category-contemporary","book-category-fantasy-science-fiction-fantasy-2","book-category-paranormal-urban","book-category-science-fiction-fantasy-2","book-author-john-scalzi","book-author-mary-robinette-kowal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/book\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-category&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"book-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sciencefictioncomedy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-author&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}