I Am Not Broken: The Language of Disability

I was at work yesterday talking to a coworker about my upcoming surgery when I mentioned, laughing, “I’m broken,” with a shrug. My coworker laughed, and I laughed and she moved on and I stayed right there, rooted to the floor, thinking about the words that had just slipped into my dialogue. I meant them…

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City of Stairs – Robert Jackson Bennett

About the Book A densely atmospheric and intrigue-filled fantasy novel of living spies, dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, ever-changing city-from one of America’s most acclaimed young SF writers. Years ago, the city of Bulikov wielded the powers of the Gods to conquer the world. But after its divine protectors were mysteriously killed, the…

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The Midnight Queen – Sylvia Izzo Hunter

About the Book In the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Merlin College, the most talented—and highest born—sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover… Gray’s deep talent for magick has won him a place at Merlin College. But…

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Shadowplay – Tad Williams

About the Book A year ago, the March Kingdoms were at peace, and the Eddon family held the throne. Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner in a faraway land, and Olin’s heir Kendrick is dead–slain by treachery and dark, bloody magic. With their father and brother taken from them,…

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Echopraxia – Peter Watts

About the Book Prepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It’s the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans…

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House Immortal – Devon Monk

About the Book One hundred years ago, eleven powerful ruling Houses consolidated all of the world’s resources and authority into their own grasping hands. Only one power wasn’t placed under the command of a single House: the control over the immortal galvanized…. Matilda Case isn’t like most folk. In fact, she’s unique in the world,…

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On Diversity and Inclusion

Special Needs in Strange Worlds on SF Signal has done some pretty amazing things for me. First, SF Signal has a huge number of readers, so moving my efforts over there has done incredible things for getting the cause of disability, and its importance in the genre so much more limelight than I ever could…

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Fool’s Asssassin – Robin Hobb

About the Book ‘Fantasy as it ought to be written’ GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Tom Badgerlock has been living peaceably in the manor house at Withywoods with his beloved wife Molly these many years, the estate a reward to his family for loyal service to the crown. But behind the facade of respectable middle-age lies a…

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Recommended Reading: Social SciFi

I love social science fiction. It’s absolutely addicting. Social SciFi are those books that play with aspects of life as we know it – social classes, sexuality, the relationship between humans and evolving technology. Social SciFi makes you think. They are the books that, when you’re done reading them, you look at the world around…

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The Mirror Empire – Kameron Hurley

About the Book On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself. In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind…

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