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Reading “Redshirts” by John Scalzi

Posted on September 26, 2023March 13, 2026 by sonofsagan in Genre Fantasies, Reading...

John Scalzi's Redshirts is a sometimes smart, mostly fun, and occasionally critically interesting novel that sits rightfully, and awkwardly, at the center of recent debates about the origin, aesthetics, and political value of so-called "squeecore" genre fiction.

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