Each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy eBook to club subscribers. For March 2020 eBook the eBook Club pick is John Scalzi’s Redshirts, the winner of the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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, with the chance to serve on “Away Missions” alongside the starship’s famous senior officers.
Life couldn’t be better…until Dahl begins to pick up on the fact that:
- Every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces.
- The ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations, and…
- At least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
Not surprisingly, a great deal of energy below decks is expended on avoiding, at all costs, being assigned to an Away Mission. Then Andrew stumbles on information that completely transforms his and his colleagues’ understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is…and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.
Redshirts is available from March 17, 12:01 AM ET to March 20, 11:59 PM ET
Download before 11:59 PM ET, March 20, 2020.
Note: If you’re having issues with the sign-up or download process, please email ebookclub@tor.com.
Apple iOS 13 Users: Downloads are now located either in your iCloud account or in a Downloads folder within Safari (the down-arrow icon in the top right). More troubleshooting help here.
Coming April 14, from John Scalzi:
THE LAST EMPEROX
The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.
Buy the Book
The Last Emperox
Too late, alas! I purchased my copy years ago and read it with enjoyment. (-:
That was the last book I bought from Apple. I couldn’t remove the DRM so I could only read it with one e-reader. I was glad to get a version that I can read with all of my e-readers.
i’ve been trying to download this for an hour, but getting all sorts of server errors. Bummer!
Same. All sorts of server errors and timeouts.
From the link:
There are currently technical difficulties with the website which are being worked on. Please check back later.
That sucks. Hopefully they fix it before it expires.
I bought it on kindle so should be happy to download DRM-free but… server errors
What do Android users have to do to download this book.
FYI my niece Anna Genoese used to be one of your editors and founded a romance line for you also.
I have enjoyed many Tor books over the years and your offer of a free book a month is just great. As a completist, I like to see a book cover on my Kindle – my only incredibly minor carp. Thank you so much, Tor, and I am sure the freebies will help many retain their sanity during this horrible Covid-19 period (that even sounds like a science fiction word)!
Any chance of getting a hardbound book of Redshirts?
I kept trying and finally got it. I think the Tor team worked out whatever technical difficulties issues they were having. Thanks for offering this title!
I downloaded this book on March 19 but it was inadvertently deleted! Is there anyway I can re-download? Please.