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Redshirts by John Scalzi
4.0

The characters start tapping on the fourth wall pretty early, then banging on it, then the sledgehammers come out, and it ends by grinding the shattered pieces to dust. There's a point early on where the lampshades start to grow lampshades--it's an awkward transition, but does start to make sense fairly quickly. It's a touch experimental, or perhaps a "concept novel": the billing as a Trek parody is oversimplified, as really there's one key concept that gets examined, flogged, and meta-d. This all sounds negative but I really did enjoy the trip, including the codas (with some effective heartstring-pulling), it's just something where you have to trust the author or it doesn't work.