The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A magazine cover. It shows the painting ‘And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light’ by Likhain. It is largely orange and shows a large group of people gathering under orange trees. At the top of the cover, the title of the publication “uncanny” in large, white lowercase letters. The date of publication “September/October 2018” and the issue number “Issue Twenty-Four” are written directly above it in smaller white writing. A band underneath the title reads “Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!”. The first letter of each word is capitalised and bolded. The names of the editors are at the bottom of the cover in small white writing. /end]

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Content Warning:

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Summary:

COVER
“And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light” by Likhain

EDITORIAL
“The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Manifesto” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

FICTION
“The House on the Moon” by William Alexander
“Birthday Girl” by Rachel Swirsky
“An Open Letter to the Family” by Jennifer Brozek
“Heavy Lifting” by A. T. Greenblatt
“The Frequency of Compassion” by A. Merc Rustad
“The Stars Above” by Katharine Duckett
“The Things I Miss the Most” by Nisi Shawl
“Abigail Dreams of Weather” by Stu West
“A House by the Sea” by P. H. Lee
“Disconnect” by Fran Wilde
“This Will Not Happen to You” by Marissa Lingen
“By Degrees and Dilatory Time” by SL Huang
“Listen” by Karin Tidbeck

NONFICTION
“Design a Spaceship” by Andi C. Buchanan
“The Linguistics of Disability, or, Empathy > Sympathy” by Fran Wilde
“The Body to Come: Afrofuturist Posthumanism and Disability” by Zaynab Shahar
“The Expendable Disabled Heroes of Marvel’s Infinity War” by John Wiswell
“And the Dragon Was in the Skin” by A. J. Hackwith
“Miles Vorkosigan and ‘Excellent Life Choices’: (Neuro)Divergence and Decision-Making in Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga” by Ira Gladkova
“Give Me Heroism or Give Me Death” by Gemma Noon
“My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” by teri.zin
“The Future Is (Not) Disabled” by Marieke Nijkamp

POETRY
“Ctenophore Soul” by Rita Chen
“core/debris/core” by Rose Lemberg
“How to Fix a Dance When It Breaks” by Genevieve DeGuzman
“the body argonautica” by Robin M. Eames
“All the Stars Above the Sea” by Sarah Gailey
“Convalescence” by Alicia Cole
“hypothesis for apocalypse” by Khairini Barokka
“Spatiotemporal Discontinuity” by Bogi Takács
“You Wanted Me to Fly” by Julia Watts Belser

INTERVIEWS
Rachel Swirsky interviewed by Sandra Odell
Marissa Lingen interviewed by Sandra Odell

PERSONAL ESSAYS
“The Stories We Find Ourselves in” by A. T. Greenblatt
“The Horror and the Reality: Mental Illness Through the Lens of Horror” by V. Medina
“We Are Not Daredevil. Except When We Aree Daredevil” by Michael Merriam
“Nihil De Nobis, Sine Nobis” by Ace Ratcliff
“From Rabbit Holes to Wormholes: KidLit Memories” by Alice Wong
“Stories That Talk” by Keith A. Manuel
“Once We Were Prophets” by Leigh Schmidt
“Science Fiction as Community” by Kathryn Allan
“Constructing the Future” by Derek Newman-Stile, PhD (ABD)
“Disabled or Just Broken?” by Jaime O. Mayer
“Now I Survive” by Jacqueline Bryk
“Instant Demotion in Respectability” by Bogi Takács
“Being Invisible” by Joyce Chng
“We Are Not Your Backstories” by K. C. Alexander
“Disabled Enough” by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
“Malfunctioning Space Stations” by Marissa Lingen
“BFFs in the Apocalypse” by John Wiswell
“Why I Limp” by Dilman Dila
“The Only Thing Faster Than Tonight: Mr. Darkness” by Elise Matthesen
“Homo Duplex” by Tochi Onyebuchi
“A Dream to Shape My World” by Eli Wilkinson
“To Boldly Go” by Cara Liebowitz
“Move Like You’re From Thra, My People” by Haddayr Copley-Woods
“Everything is True: A Non-Neurotypical Experience with Fiction” by Ada Hoffmann
“Unlocking the Garret” by Rachel Swirsky
“The Stories We Tell and the Amazon Experiment” by Day Al-Mohamed
“Science Fiction Saved My Life” by Laurel Amberdine
“After the Last Chapter” by Andi C. Buchanan
“Dancing in Iron Shoes” by Nicolette Barischoff

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Notes:

People who have contributed to this anthology:

• Lynne M. Thomas
• Michael Damian Thomas
• Elsa Sjunneson-Henry
• Dominik Parisien
• William Alexander
• Rachel Swirsky
• Jennifer Brozek
• A.T. Greenblatt
• A. Merc Rustad
• Katharine Duckett
• Nisi Shawl
• Stu West
• P.H. Lee
• Fran Wilde
• Marissa Lingen
• S.L. Huang
• Karin Tidbeck
• Andi C. Buchanan
• Zaynab Shahar
• John Wiswell
• A.J. Hackwith
• Ira Gladkova
• Gemma Noon
• teri.zin
• Marieke Nijkamp
• Rita Chen
• Rose Lemberg
• Genevieve Deguzman
• Robin M. Eames
• Sarah Gailey
• Alicia Cole
• Khairini Barokka
• Bogi Takács
• Julia Watts Belser
• Sandra Odell
• V. Medina
• Michael Merriam
• Ace Ratcliff
• Alice Wong
• Keith A. Manuel
• Leigh Schmidt
• Kathryn Allan
• Derek Newman-Stile
• Jaime O. Mayer
• Jacqueline Bryk
• Joyce Chng
• K.C. Alexander
• Dilman Dila
• Elise Matthesen
• Tochi Onyebuchi
• Eli Wilkinson
• Cara Liebowitz
• Haddayr Copley-Woods
• Ada Hoffmann
• Day Al-Mohamed
• Laurel Amberdine
• Nicolette Barischoff

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Archivist Comments:

I’ve been looking forward to adding this one. Didn’t realise I’d have to change my post layout a bit.

I couldn’t find an ISBN for this so I’ve done my best to provide other information.

Here is a link to the Uncanny website, specifically about this issue.

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