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Tag: Author: John Scalzi

Reading “Redshirts” by John Scalzi

Posted on September 26, 2023April 20, 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.

Tagged Author: John Scalzi, Genre: Science Fiction, Pub Decade: 2000s, Publisher: Tor2 Comments

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