Great SF Short Story on Disability Themes

[jesse_the_k]

In “Silver Buttons All Down His Back,” A.C. Wise captures the distance between those of us with atypical bodies and the beautiful ones. The gulf that could be bridged and often isn’t. Plus astronauts.

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And even after all these years, he can’t shake the notion there’s a near-imperceptible whine as the impulses finally kick down the length of the spine, clinging silver to his back and twin to the bone underneath, telling the braces wound around his legs, skin-close, to move. Of course there’s no sound, but that doesn’t stop him from hearing it, or feeling the lag ghosting each step as he walks away.
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https://www.apex-magazine.com/silver-buttons-all-down-his-back/

In addition to fiction, A.C. Wise also publishes many short-story reviews. My introduction to SF was through short stories, and I believe that the brevity lends itself to focused world-building. Want more?

Check out A.C.’s blog about finding Nebula-eligble short fiction for 2018. http://www.acwise.net/?p=2648

Comments

[sonia]

Thanks for the link! I liked the depiction of the assistive tech and how Devon experiences it.