You Deserve the Redshirt Treatment™
Mar. 28th, 2014 09:30 pmI'm now tracking my year-to-date Books Read on Goodreads. Keeping to roughly one a week, which seems my speed. This week's new read, though, gets a preview, just because it's so damn well done:
Think of it as a backwards sort of Galaxy Quest: a real, familiar (but not quite) starship keeps losing all of its low-level enlisted personnel, and it turns out that a fictional TV series is interfering with their space-time continuum. I'm only a third in, but I've already had enough laughs to last into next month.
The amazing thing is that nobody has ever really mined this concept before. Well, except for MAD magazine, ages ago:
And now, bringing the concept even fuller-circle? A cable network is adapting Redshirts AS a television series.
The meta..... it...... burns! ::flails::