John Scalzi’s Redshirts are, rather appropriately, heading for the small screen in a limited series version for FX.

Scalzi will be one of the executive producers on the project, alongside Jon Shestack, Ken Kwapis and Alexandra Beattie. Kwapis will direct the opening episode, although writers have yet to be confirmed.

The book, described as a novel with three codas, won the 2013 Hugo Award, and follows a group of “expendable” redshirts aboard a starship who discover that their lives are somehow intertwined with a TV show. “Redshirts is a madcap, hyper-meta tale,” Shestack noted, with Kwapis adding that, “If Jorge Luis Borges had been a staff writer on the original Star Trek, he would not doubt have concocted a story like Redshirts.”

Read our review of the novel here