Book description
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union
Capital Ship
Intrepid
, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige
posting, and Andrew is even more delighted when he's assigned to the
ship's Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better . . . although
there are a few strange things going on . . . :
(1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces
(2) the ship's captain, the chief science officer, and the handsome
Lieutenant Kerensky always
survive these encounters
(3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
Suddenly it's less surprising how much energy is expended below decks
on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned an Away Mission. Andrew's fate
may have been sealed . . . until he stumbles on a piece of information
that changes everything . . . and offers him and his fellow redshirts a
crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives . . . John Scalzi is
the author of several SF novels including the bestselling Old Man's War
sequence, comprising Old Man's War
, The Ghost Brigades
, and the New York Times
bestselling The Last Colony
. He is a winner of science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best
New Writer, and he won the Hugo Award for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
, a collection of essays from his popular blog Whatever
. His latest novel, Fuzzy Nation
, hit the New York Times
bestseller list in its first week on sale. He lives in Ohio with his
wife and daughter.
