I really liked reading this book.
I had read an earlier book by Scalzi, one of his first ones,
and it was really close to another book that was a classic of the genre, so I
was worried about someone being the kind of guy who was happy being successful
as a derivative author.
But this book is derivative in a good way. It takes the Star
Trek tradition of killing a minor character and both plays it for laughs and as
an introspective look at the genre itself. It would be hard here to get into too
much detail here and not give it away, but if you like the work of Vonnegut and
Calvino, you’d be at home here.
The last third is a bit much though, since it takes the
trope, turns it inside out, and looks at its desiccated corpse. What was once clever
becomes sign-posted.
It’s really good, just stop at page 230.
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