{"id":1842,"date":"2012-09-13T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:32:41","slug":"book-log-redshirts-a-novel-with-three-codas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Redshirts: a Novel with Three Codas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Redshirts: a Novel with Three Codas<\/em> by John Scalzi<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting premise.  And it&#8217;s well executed.  As far as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>A novel from the point of view of the &#8220;Redshirts&#8221;, named after those characters on Star Trek with the red uniforms (depicting grunt crew), who were effectively there to &#8220;show how the monster works&#8221;, as my old boss once put it.  Disposable characters.<\/p>\n<p><i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead<\/i>, Star Trek style.<\/p>\n<p>But you get two thirds through the book, and it ends.  But it doesn&#8217;t.  Because there are two more &#8220;codas&#8221;.  Which is another way of saying &#8220;filler&#8221;.  The concept just didn&#8217;t stretch out to a full length story.<\/p>\n<p>But, what was there was fine.  Worth a borrow, if not an outright purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redshirts: a Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi It&#8217;s an interesting premise. And it&#8217;s well executed. As far as it goes. A novel from the point of view of the &#8220;Redshirts&#8221;, named after those characters on Star Trek with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=1842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3313,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}