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Some SF works that center around women and disability:
Some SF works that center around women and disability:

Revision as of 19:28, 25 September 2007

nozelnol lipascac4 Some SF works that center around women and disability:

  • "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"
  • "Melora" - Star Trek: Deep Space 9 episode. A scientist who uses a robotic exoskeleton. Her disability becomes her strength when gravity fails on the ship. "The crew welcomes Ensign Melora Pazlar, a cartographer on a mission to chart the Gamma Quadrant. Melora is an Elaysian, a species from a planet with very low gravity, and because of this, she must use a wheelchair and braces to get around in "normal" conditions."
  • "That Only a Mother", Judith Merril, short story about mutation and the effect of nuclear impact on genotype.
  • The Jenny Casey series, by Elizabeth Bear, features a female main character with a bionic, prosthetic arm.
  • "Blue Champagne" by John Varley features a quadriplegic woman whose golden exoskeleton helps her use her arms and legs, and also helps her become a celebrity.
  • A short story about implications of a society where 75% of the people have disabilities due to genetic drift. Airships, low tech post apocalpytic scenario where disabled people actually survive. What was this story and who wrote it?