Accessing the Future

Posted on 17 September 2018 by Kathryn Allan

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. Best Download Accessing the Future Author Kathryn Allan For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is a wonderfully poignant SF anthology on the strength of the first half of this alone, I d already felt strongly enough about this to recc it to many of my GoodReads friends.The best, most rewarding part of this reading experience is that all the stories in this anthology are excellent, well crafted pieces of fiction in their own right, with fully developed and fleshed out characters.While the central theme IS centered around disabilites, thankfully they are generally treated as merely on This is a wonderfully poignant SF anthology on the strength of the first half of this alone, I d already felt strongly enough about this to recc it to many of my GoodReads friends.The best, most rewarding part of this r...An absolutely stellar anthology of disability themed speculative fiction Seriously, I cried during so many of these stories just to see people like me represented The illustrations are also amazing.Speaking of crying, Samantha Rich s Screens gutted me In this future, all people wear screens that display th...THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD SO GOOD Every single story and image including detailed image descriptions for all visual images in this book is incredibly well crafted and sent chills up my spine I tried to read it really slowly so it wouldn t end so quickly, but it was just so good that I couldn t slow...I thought this was really wonderful though, like most short story anthologies, it varies in quality, it has a good proportion of 5 star stories for these authors to create such wonderful characters, such original worlds, each in less than 20 pages, is really something.Beyond that, this book is just important Accessing the future aims to present disability in a realistic way, where the disabled characters aren t just sidekicks or villains and where they re just real people I need to read m I thought this was really wonderful though, like most short story anthologies, it varies in quality, it has a good proportion of 5 star stories for these authors to create such wonderful characters, such original worlds, each in less than 20 pages, is really something.Beyond that, this book is just important Accessing the future aims to present disability in a realistic way, where the d...So so good A brilliant anthology The writing is top notch and themes are so on point This book takes on disability by centering characters with disabilities as creators of their own narratives and subverts harmful sci fi tropes such as technology as cure The stories avoid treating their characters as inspirational and instead create real, flawed people The stories are subtle and complex in their handling of disability and the collection editors contextualize the stories within our ablei So so good A brilliant a...Review originally written for my blogSo this was the third book I read for Sci Fi month over on Twitter but I ve decided to review it first just because it s so fantastic I bought this a while ago onwhen I had some money left on a gift card then forgot about it for a while until this month I ve been trying to focus on reducing my physical TBR pile for Sci Fi month especially as then I can take a photo at the end of them all in a nice stack but I just had to make an exception for this Review originally written for my blogSo this was the third book I read for Sci Fi month over on Twitter but I ve decided to review it first just because it s so fantastic I bought this a while ago onwhen I had some money left on a gift card then forgot about it for a while until this month I ve been trying to focus on reducing my physical TBR pile for Sci Fi month especially as then I can take a photo at the end of them all in a nice stack but I just had to make an exception for this ...This was interesting, entertaining, but most of all, thought provoking Each entry centers around a character or characters with a disability I rather enjoyed seeing how they all played out, and would definitely recommend it to anyone who wishes to break the mold o...Yes, yes, yes yes yes Read this brilliant collection now, it might just be the best thing you ll read this year.Absolutely wonderful anthology of disability themed speculative fiction stories It highlighted many areas of ignorance for me like the fact that the large majority of speculative fiction that I ve read imagines a future where disabled people are totally erased, their conditions cured or corrected I can t imagine how excluding that must feel for disabled people reading those stories, and I m incredibly grateful to this book for imagining what some alternative futures might look like The Absolutely wonderful anthology of disability themed speculative fiction stories It highlighted many areas of ignorance for me like the fact that the large majority of speculative fiction that I ve read imagines a future where disabled people are totally erased, their conditions cured or corrected I can t imagine how excluding that must feel for disabled ...Very disappointed None of those stories explore in any meaningful way the topic, and not because of their length There is just no depth or creativity to the examination of the way our world is built to be ableist and racist an...

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17 September 2018

Kathryn Allan