# Confirm a character name error in your copy of Scalzi's Redshirts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105
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**Created:** [November 29, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105 "2013-11-29T23:02:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105/1 "2013-11-29T23:02:05Z")
Does anyone happen to have a copy of John Scalzi’s _Redshirts_? I think there’s an error referring to the wrong character, and I’m curious if this is in every copy / edition or just this one.
In Chapter Ten, right before Chapter Eleven:
> [@](#):
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> _You’re not just going to get killed off, Kerensky told them. It’s not enough for a television audience just to kill off some poor random bastard every episode._
I’m sure that was meant to be said by Jenkins, not Kerensky. Looks like the editor missed this one?
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### Author:  [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2013, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105/2 "2013-11-30T04:34:12Z")
It says that in my copy (ebook) also. Yes, somebody should have caught it, but I’ve seen a lot worse mistakes.
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### Author:  [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105/3 "2013-11-30T11:38:40Z")
The UK paperback has the same text.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105/4 "2013-11-30T16:17:38Z")
I have it in Audible (audiobook) format, unabridged and narrated by Wil Wheaton. It is correctly spoken as “Jenkins” in this edition.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/confirm-a-character-name-error-in-your-copy-of-scalzis-redshirts/675105/5 "2013-11-30T17:12:51Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#):
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> I have it in Audible (audiobook) format, unabridged and narrated by Wil Wheaton. It is correctly spoken as “Jenkins” in this edition.
Heh. That’s pretty cool, since he’s one of the people Scalzi mentioned in his dedication: “To Wil Wheaton, whom I heart with all the hearty heartness a heart can heart”