Shocking geek confession: I've never seen Star Trek.
However, even though I haven't ever watched a single full episode of the show that this book parodies, that doesn't mean I can't enjoy the fast-paced and wicked humor that runs rampant in this novel. If you've ever watched an action movie and felt like the hero must have somehow acquired a suit of invulnerable plot armor, well, this is the book for you!
Be warned, however: there's going to be some very meta themes.
I flew through this book, and the story felt very fast-paced - so fast paced, in fact, that I found myself finishing the story, reaching the end, with a good sixty or seventy pages left in the book. What in the world? Is this just an under-200-page story with a lot of padding?
No, as it turns out. This is a story within a story, and then there's another story wrapped around that one. The characters of the first story are just that - characters - in the second story, and the third story is even more disconnected from those, another step out.
Like I said, meta.
Still, despite the unexpected shortness of the main story, I really enjoyed this parody, and I'd happily pick it up again. It looks like John Scalzi has a lot of books out, so I will probably be reading more by this man - he can write!
Time to read: 3 hours. Literally burned the whole thing in a single afternoon.
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