NOTE: This installment of Special Needs In Strange Worlds features a guest post from author Daryl Gregory! – Sarah Chorn Daryl Gregory is an award-winning writer of [...]
NOTE: This installment of Special Needs In Strange Worlds features a guest post from author Michael j. Sullivan! – Sarah Chorn Michael J. Sullivan is the author of The [...]
NOTE: This installment of Special Needs In Strange Worlds features a guest post from the incredible Elizabeth Bear! – Sarah Chorn Elizabeth Bear was born on the same [...]
NOTE: This installment of Special Needs In Strange Worlds features a guest post from author Rhiannon Held! – Sarah Chorn Rhiannon Held is the author of Silver and its [...]
Being a teenager was awkward for me. It really wasn’t any fun and I hated just about every minute of it. I was a pretty pukey teen, though. Maybe it was more entertaining [...]
January seems to be the month for lists, but life keeps happening the way it does and it’s pushed my list back to February. I apologize for that. I am learning that it [...]
The Miriam Black books by Chuck Wendig have made me look at disabilities in a completely different way. Whether or not you think Miriam Black is disabled, or just [...]
A few weeks ago I interviewed my disabled brother about reading SF/F and what the genre means to him. This week I decided to balance it out by interviewing author Teresa [...]
Earlier this year I successfully finished, for the second (and hopefully last) time, a battle with cancer. I was diagnosed in October of 2010, and I got my full body scan and [...]
I’ve mentioned a few times that my big brother is the reason I got into genre. He is also the entire reason I write this column. My brother Rob is disabled in numerous [...]
In the last installment of Special Needs in Strange Worlds, I talked about Jacqueline Koyanagi’s Ascension, and how powerfully, and realistically, she covers a myriad [...]
There is much about Jacqueline Koyanagi’s Ascension that has attracted the attention of a lot of people. It’s a science fiction book featuring a woman of color with [...]
Even if you haven’t read A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, you’ve probably heard the name Tyrion Lannister thrown around a bit. Tyrion is, dare I say [...]
Welcome to Special Needs in Strange Worlds, a column focusing on celebrating disabilities in SFF. This column will focus on book reviews, author interviews, and guest posts [...]