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A neglected boy clings to an action figure like a lifeline. A trans man meets his childhood hero. An introvert finally finds her voice at a protest. In Redshirts Sometimes Survive, the outcasts, the rebels, the bullied, and the weird find themselves, one other, and a place to call home. Spanning moments of humour, grief, joy, and resistance, these interconnected flash stories are populated by queer fans, lonely children, awkward convention-goers, and disillusioned adults who seek out their favourite starships and captains for solace and strength. By turns moving, thoughtful, and wry, Redshirts Sometimes Survives offers connection and comfort for fans of Star Trek, and for the rest of us. Being a redshirt doesn't mean you're doomed. Sometimes, it means you survive. ""A love letter to all of us in the Bridge Crew who found family in other Trek fans. Both funny and heartbreaking."" - Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Giller Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Cure for Death by Lightning ""Queer found family and crushes, a child put through the system, a nonspeaking disabled elder who recalls the TOS days, the desire for fat bodies sharing adventures, and even Star-crossed fandoms. A must-have collection for geeks of all generations."" - Cait Gordon, award-winning author of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! ""Hilarious, harrowing, and kind."" - Michelle Butler Hallett, disabled novelist and deep Trekkie, winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, Constant Nobody About the Author: Finnian Burnett is a writer whose work explores the intersections of the human body, mental health, and gender identity. They are a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant, a finalist in the 2023 CBC nonfiction prize, and a 2024 Pushcart nominee. They have delivered several keynotes, including at the Surrey International Writers' Conference. Their work appears in Writer's Digest, Blank Spaces Magazine, Reflex Press, The Daily Sci-Fi, CBC, contest anthologies such as Word on the Lake, The Wine Country Writer's Festival anthology, Federation of BC Writers, and more. Their previous novellas-in-flash, The Clothes Make the Man and The Price of Cookies, are available through Ad Hoc Fiction and Off Topic Publishing respectively. When not writing or teaching, Finnian enjoys cold weather walking, Star Trek, and cat memes.

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""I simply adore this book! It's a celebration both of Star Trek and of love in all its many forms. This bouquet of heartfelt flash fictions captures, better than any other work I've ever read, why Star Trek has endured as a cultural force for sixty years now: it's all about how, in this wide, wonderful universe of ours, there's a place for everybody. Written with empathy and wit, Redshirts Sometimes Survive moved me to both tears and laughter. Finnian Burnett is a national treasure."" -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Downloaded ""Hilarious, harrowing, and kind, Redshirts Sometime Survive delivers interconnected stories of apparently random and very diverse characters who all share one thing: a love of Star Trek. Pay attention, and you'll soon be taking in layered moments of both sorrow and joy, all layered with Trek's deep optimism. Never straying from hard realities, yet also never surrendering to despair, Redshirts Sometimes Survive is one gorgeous hopepunk book."" -Michelle Butler Hallett, disabled novelist and deep Trekkie, winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, Constant Nobody""Star Trek fans rejoice! In Redshirts Sometimes Survive, Finnian Burnett has written a love letter to all of us in the Bridge Crew who found family in other Trek fans. In writing that's both funny and heartbreaking, Burnett demonstrates how, in our shared love of Spock, Janeway, Picard and yes, even Kirk, we can find a community that we may not find elsewhere. But this novella-in-flash is much more than a celebration of a shared passion. In Redshirts Sometimes Survive, Burnett points out how Star Trek calls us to action, to speak out, to protest, to stand up to bullies as Captain Janeway would. Because here, in the Star Trek universe, we can imagine a world where we're accepted as we really are. If we can imagine that, Burnett suggests, then we can also make it so."" -Gail Anderson-Dargatz, bestselling author ofThe Almost Widow ""Burnett expertly draws us&nb

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