Comments on: Scalzi's Redshirts: existentialist comedy space opera

By: Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:56:00 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Censored_Roger_Rabbit%3F took this idea across multiple genres.

By: Karen Davis

Karen Davis — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:54:00 +0000

The book is DRM free regardless of where you buy it - now. A few vendors didn't get the memo, but TOR has arranged a replacement copy for anyone who got a DRM'd one. See Whatever for details.

By: flosofl

flosofl — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:13:00 +0000

Don’t know about Kobo, but the the copy of Redshirts I got from Amazon is, in fact, DRM free.

By: Bucket

Bucket — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:52:00 +0000

In space, nobody can hear you have a pillowfight.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 04:02:00 +0000

I keep reading that TOR books is going DRM-free. When is this happening? All I can find is Redshirts on Kindle or Kobo.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:09:00 +0000

You are totally right. They were Shakespeare’s redshirts. And the ambassador was Dr. McCoy.

By: privatedick

privatedick — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:54:00 +0000

After much thought I bought the dead tree version. You know, so I can LEND IT TO WHOEVER THE HELL I WANT.

By: Mickey_disqus

Mickey_disqus — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:08:00 +0000

I wonder how the net-savvy readers of BoingBoing, familiar as they are with the world of (illegal) file-sharing, will react to that…

By: Dj Walker-Morgan

Dj Walker-Morgan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:53:00 +0000

No Kindle version in the UK till 15 November 2012? No DRM but Amazon enforced artificial scarcity?

By: Sean Murphy

Sean Murphy — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:48:00 +0000

There’s even a Jonathan Coulton song written specifically for the novel!
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/05/29/redshirt/

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I was just glad when they went back to using belts. For a while it looked like they all were wearing footie-pajamas.

By: RedShirt77

RedShirt77 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Some of us work in engineering. It still throws me that TNG switched the colors around and command wore red and the goldshirts went to their deaths. And Data a science officer never wore blue.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:26:00 +0000

“Maybe you’re the plucky comic relief? You ever think about that?”

By: RedShirt77

RedShirt77 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:52:00 +0000

We are not just intergalactic cannon fodder!

By: Astragali

Astragali — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:45:00 +0000

I would love to get both the print version, and the audiobook (read by Wil Wheaton, no less). Perhaps one day…

By: Gbaji

Gbaji — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:25:00 +0000

“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Disintegrated”

By: Simon Cohen

Simon Cohen — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:24:00 +0000

Very excited to read this. Scalzi is more addictive than bath salts.