Redshirts

Lots of geek love. I feel an inevitable screenplay in this book's future.
Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Intrepid, the flagship of the Universal Union. It soon becomes evident that Andrew and his newly posted friends are replacing crew members that have met with untimely, and inevitably gruesome deaths. Death by falling rock, toxic atmosphere, pulse gun vaporization, shuttle door malfunction and those damn ice sharks. It doesn't take long to determine there is a bizarre set of rules that seem to govern this ship - most importantly involving away missions and any member of the bridge. There's the pitch - for the sake of keeping the review spoiler free, I'll leave it at that. But you've probably pieced together several plausible resolutions. It's a super fast read so you can forgive it spiraling out with a sputter with the three codas at the end. But it's still hella fun.

I love this Trekkian reality and can only imagine the immense nerd glee I'd feel hearing the Audible version narrated by Wil Wheaton.