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Violence
Some
Red-shirt deaths in various improbable ways; played for comedy rather than horror
Language
Some
Moderate adult language; Scalzi's witty dialogue
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Light existential humor about the nature of narrative and being a minor character in someone else's story
What this book is about
The junior crew members of the Universal Union flagship Intrepid notice a disturbing pattern: whenever the senior officers go on an away mission, ensigns die in bizarre and preventable ways. John Scalzi's Hugo-winning comedic science fiction is a brilliant deconstruction of Star Trek tropes—funny, surprisingly moving in its codas, and formally inventive.
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