Redshirts
内容简介
Scalzi is at heart a humorist — his novel The Android's Dream opens with a chapter-long fart joke — though the difficulties of marketing humorous science fiction have often caused publishers to downplay that. But Redshirts, which is being advertised as a Star Trek parody, may signal that Scalzi has achieved a profile sufficient enough to be beyond such worries. Redshirts concerns low-ranking crew members aboard an interstellar starship who start to notice a disturbing pattern — folks like themselves never seem to make it home safe from alien worlds, whereas high-ranking officers always seem strangely untouched by the danger.
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作者简介
Megapopular writer John Scalzi's Whatever blog is often described as one of the few websites with a readable comments section, thanks to his strict policy of culling offensive posts — a process he refers to as "wielding the Mallet of Loving Correction." He's also known for posting oddly manipulated photos of himself and putting bacon on his cat. He writes novels, too, such as the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War, about elderly citizens given fresh young bodies and sent into space to fight aliens.
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读书文摘
聪明的有钱人——他们对于接近自己的人总是有敏锐的洞察力。到底是真心想和自己做朋友，还是只想接近金钱和权力，或者成为名人跟班。 故事追求的不就是这些吗？一切都不再有道理可言。物理定律去一边歇着了，人们放弃了逻辑，转而追求戏剧化。 不应该保持沉默。人生苦短。
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