Redshirts by John Scalzi

Remember all these poor folks in the original Star Trek series wearing red shirts and getting killed off like flies? Just imagine what would have happened if they’d known about their situation and started to fight back.

The book started of quite promising with the lifes the crew of the Universal Union’s starship Intrepid dying left and right and their replacement finding out that someting most be horribly wrong here. There is time-travel, there are wild animals, everything that should make this a great read. Sadly, it’s nowhere near the depth of the author’s other work in the Old Man’s War series.

In the end I’m happy that I’ve red this one but it is hard to recommend to anyone that doesn’t know the original Star Trek show.