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Redshirts is a 2012 science fiction novel by John Scalzi that uses metafictional humor to examine the expendable crewman convention associated with classic television space adventure. Its characters discover that their apparent reality is governed by the logic of a television production, prompting attempts to understand and resist that pattern. The novel won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Redshirts scores 6.57/10 (Fair) on Lunoo, making it rated in the Novel category.
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