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Disability in Science Fiction

Author : K. Allan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137343435
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Disability in Science Fiction written by K. Allan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.

Accessing the Future

Author : Djibril al-Ayad
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0957397542
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Accessing the Future written by Djibril al-Ayad and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen authors and nine artists in this volume bring us beautiful, speculative stories of disability and mental illness in the future. Teeming with space pirates, battle robots, interstellar travel and genetically engineered creatures, every story and image is a quality, crafted work of science fiction in its own right, as thrilling and fascinating as it is worthy and important. These are stories about people with disabilities in all of their complexity and diversity, that scream with passion and intensity. These are stories that refuse to go gently.

Disability, Literature, Genre

Author : Ria Cheyne
Publisher : Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
ISBN 13 : 1789620775
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Disability, Literature, Genre written by Ria Cheyne and published by Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction's unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective--and effective--power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

The Ship Who Sang

Author : Anne McCaffrey
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0425287114
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Ship Who Sang written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved—saved to be schooled, programmed, and implanted into the sleek titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner—male or female—to share her exhilirating excapades in space! Her life was to be rich and rewarding . . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 antipitated a sublime immortality. Then one day she fell in love!

Disability in Science Fiction

Author : K. Allan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137343435
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Disability in Science Fiction written by K. Allan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars – with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history – discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction.

Bodyminds Reimagined

Author : Sami Schalk
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822371839
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Bodyminds Reimagined written by Sami Schalk and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.

The Chrysalids

Author : John Wyndham
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Chrysalids written by John Wyndham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction

Author : Courtney Stanton
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648896928
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Project(ing) Human: Representations of Disability in Science Fiction written by Courtney Stanton and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines representations of disability within popular science fiction, using examples from television, film, literature, and gaming to explore how the genre of science fiction shapes cultural understanding of disability experience. Science fiction texts typically grapple with concepts such as transhumanism, embodiment, and autonomy more directly than do those of other genres. In doing so, they raise significant questions about the experience of disability. More broadly, they often convey the place of disability in not only the future but also the world of today. Through critical research, the chapters within this interdisciplinary collection explore what science fiction texts convey about the value of disability, whether it be through disabled characters, biotechnologies, or, more broadly, conceptions of an idealized future. Chapters are grouped thematically and include discussions of the intersections of disability with other identity groups, the interplay of disability and market/capitalist value, and how disability shapes current and future definitions of human-ness, agency, and autonomy. This full volume builds on current research regarding the relationship of disability studies to the science fiction genre by exploring new themes and contemporary media to aid as an instructional tool for scholars in fields of disability studies, science fiction literature, and media studies.

Disability and Modern Fiction

Author : A. Hall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230355471
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Disability and Modern Fiction written by A. Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.

Being Seen

Author : Elsa Sjunneson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982152400
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Being Seen written by Elsa Sjunneson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else. As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her. While she cannot see well enough to operate without a guide dog or cane, she can see enough to know when someone is reacting to the visible signs of her blindness and can hear when they’re whispering behind her back. And she certainly knows how wrong our one-size-fits-all definitions of disability can be. As a media studies professor, she’s also seen the full range of blind and deaf portrayals on film, and here she deconstructs their impact, following common tropes through horror, romance, and everything in between. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history of the Deafblind experience, Being Seen explores how our cultural concept of disability is more myth than fact, and the damage it does to us all.

Say What You Will

Author : Cammie McGovern
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062271121
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Say What You Will written by Cammie McGovern and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A unique and unforgettable love.” —Teen Vogue John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant novel. Cammie McGovern's insightful young adult debut is a heartfelt and heartbreaking story about how we can all feel lost until we find someone who loves us because of our faults, not in spite of them. Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year at Coral Hills High School, these two teens are thrust into each other's lives. As they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a blossoming friendship eventually grows into something neither expected.

Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives

Author : C. Foss
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137501111
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives written by C. Foss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting subject in productive and provocative ways.

The WisCon Chronicles

Author : JoSelle Vanderhooft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781619760424
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The WisCon Chronicles written by JoSelle Vanderhooft and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In science fiction and fantasy, just as in the world we all inhabit, disability is often misunderstood, maligned, and disregarded, even by fans (as well as people in general) who are committed to social justice, anti-oppression, and equal representation for all in sf/f fandom. In the spirit of WisCons continuing mission to boldly go where no con has gone before in breaking down barriers, this volume of the WisCon Chronicles seeks to smash ableist narratives that keep disabled people from full participation in the present we inhabit and the speculative futures we hope to create. Contributors include Andrea Hairston, Debbie Notkin, Nisi Shawl, Josh Lukin, and Nancy Jane Moore, among others. The volume includes a CD of the text, including supplemental material.

Wickedly Abled

Author : Omewenne Feyleaves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781697313390
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Wickedly Abled written by Omewenne Feyleaves and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of future worlds so-called utopias where disabled people have been erased by eugenic scientists? Dreaming of science-fiction that properly labels such depictions as dystopias for those of us who are physically and neurologically atypical? Are you sick of horror stories where mutation, mental illness, and deformity are signs of inherent evil? Are you interested in dissecting the way in which old tropes about disability informed the oldest of fairy tales and camp side stories? Do you want to demystify disabilities that have been considered by the able- bodied as signs of some sort of curse? Challenge the abliest and saneist realms which have plagued world-building in fantasy, horror, science-fiction and fairy tale mythologies since the dawn of mankind?Wickedly Abled is a dark speculative fiction anthology challenging well-worn tropes depicting disabled persons in solely villain or victim roles by promoting darker themed works of fantasy, sci-fi and horror by authors with disabilities artists which feature disabled protagonists.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 24

Author : William Alexander
Publisher : Uncanny Magazine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncanny Magazine Issue 24 written by William Alexander and published by Uncanny Magazine. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The September/October 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Our Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Special Issue! Guest edited by Dominik Parisen and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Nicolette Barischoff, S. Qioyi Lu, and Judith Tarr. Featuring new fiction by William Alexander, Rachel Swirsky, Jennifer Brozek, A.T. Greenblatt, A. Merc Rustad, Katharine Duckett, Nisi Shawl, Stu West, P.H. Lee, Fran Wilde, and Marissa Lingen, essays by Andi C. Buchanan, Fran Wilde, Zaynab Shahar, John Wiswell, A.J. Hackwith, Ira Gladkova, Gemma Noon, teri.zin, and Marieke Nijkamp, and poetry by Rita Chen, Rose Lemberg, Genevieve DeGuzman, Robin M. Eames, Sarah Gailey, Alicia Cole, Khairani Barokka, Bogi Takács, and Julia Watts Belser, interviews with Rachel Swirsky and Marissa Lingen by Sandra Odell, a cover by Likhain, and an editorial by Dominik Parisien and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry.

Handicapsules

Author : Brian Koukol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Handicapsules written by Brian Koukol and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining the deepest ores of non-belonging with vibrant, often hilarious prose, disabled author Brian Koukol's thirteen harrowing works of speculative fiction, collected here for the first time, subvert disability tropes to delightful and unnerving effect. Will you flinch at the choices of a man cynically peddling virtual reality inspiration porn extracted from his own miserable life? Can your dignity survive its plunge into a jar, in desperate need of a fluid-change, which hosts a disembodied head looking for his disappeared wife? Will you dare empathize with a myriapod refugee, otherworldly and bristle-legged, as it wrestles with its innate longing to fatally absorb the soul of each human it touches? What of the deformity-leasing friends actively circumventing facial-recognition-based toilet paper rationing? And how might you manage PTSD symptoms emerging off-planet along with a fast-killing vegetation borne from the corpses of your freshly vanquished foes? Wry, irreverent, and uncommonly wise, meet a new disability fiction. Here Tiny Tim and his ilk are replaced by protagonists far from innocent, passive, or sweet...but defiantly human, instead. This own voices collection of sci-fi and fantasy short stories featuring disabled characters and protagonists includes the following titles: - Circling the Brain - A Rock and a Hard Place - Propinquity - Useless Eaters - Cry Havoc - Much Abides - Compost Traumatic Stress - Pie in the Sky - Cardiophobia - Regeneration Gap - Dedition by Subtraction - Fish in a Barrel - Autumn in the Dying Light

Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives

Author : Anelise Haukaas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031444825
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives written by Anelise Haukaas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of disability identity in a variety of science fiction texts: adult novels, young adult literature and comics, as well as ethnographic research with gamers. Haukaas argues that instead of being a means of escapism, simulated experiences are a valuable tool for cultivating self-acceptance and promoting empathy. Through increasingly accessible technology and innovative gameplay, traditional hierarchies are dismantled, and different ways of being are both explored and validated. Ultimately, the book aims to expand our understandings of disability, performance, and self-creation in significant ways by exploring the boundless selves that the simulated environments in these texts allow.