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Disability in Science Fiction
Surprisingly Timely: Rereading Andre Norton’s Night of Masks
I Belong Where the People Are: Disability and The Shape of Water
On Its 50th Anniversary, Star Trek Must Recommit Itself to “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”
Doctor Who on Tor.com
It’s the Bootstrap Paradox. Doctor Who: “Before the Flood”
Technology and the Body: Disability in Science Fiction, edited by Kathryn Allan
Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure (Excerpt)
Non-Fiction || In science fiction, technology often modifies, supports, and attempts to "make normal" the disabled body. In Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure, 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. Bringing together the fields of disability studies and science fiction, this book explores the ways dis/abled bodies use prosthetics to challenge common ideas about ability and human being, as well as proposes new understandings of what "technology as cure" means for people with disabilities in a (post)human future.