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Tripping the Tale Fantastic de Heuer, Christopher Jon
de Heuer, Christopher Jon - Género: English
Sinopsis
From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away children under the cover of night; from deadly bio-engineered fleas to a burning teenage desire for cybernetic amputations: Deaf and hard of hearing authors from around the world bring you this fun, though oftentimes disturbing, collection of short fiction."So often the future we imagine is homogenous: everyone has the same baseline abilities and there is a presumption that all five senses are the norm. This collection has stories of people accessing new technologies, and people living in worlds where to hear is to be abnormal. There are stories that explore the imposition of language values on the Deaf community and the harm committed in the name of 'help.' And there are stories in which we get to experience how others communicate. A thought-provoking collection." Farah Mendlesohn, author of Rhetorics of Fantasy"Even for someone like...
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One of the things I d in Heuer's introduction to this anthology was his desire to have more than Deaf/HOH stories by Deaf/HOH writers (though those are excellent!). I'd hate for any writer to feel they must only write from their own experience (though selfishly I'm starved for D/HOH content).
all anthologies, not every story worked for me. I won't rehash or rate every single story here, as there were 19 of them (all but one of whose authors were new to me). I will point out a few of my favorites:* My favorite piece was Bobby Cox & Joanne Yee's "Rui's Story," which was opaque in its setting, but involved one of the most beautiful metaphors for signing I've seen yet.
* Kelsey M. Young's "Understanding" was absolutely fascinating to me as a great use of worldbuilding to develop not only a future deaf colony planet, but also featuring what's basically a guidance counselor helping a student in a setting that doesn't or won't accommodate his needs. I don't often see my own experiences reflected in this manner.
* David Langford's reprinted story, "Hearing Aid," was fun if only because of some of the repressed humor throughout (why is Anderson even friends with that asshole Nigel, ha!).All of the stories in Tripping the Tale Fantastic were science fiction, fantasy, or horror, and about 3-4 also had mystery elements. From what I can tell, about half of all the stories featured Deaf/HOH characters. I'm definitely going to follow the contributors for further stories. anthology deaf deaf-author ...more3 s Babsidi372
This is a lovely collection of stories, some spectacular, some okay. I really, really want sequels to at least three of them. More from these authors, please?lgbtqa short-story-collection speculative-fiction Sara G1,161 14
Some truly excellent stories, and some a bit ok, but mostly a great intro to many of these writers.mental-health-and-disability mystery-and-thriller read-for-buzzwordathon-2023 ...more Leigh Ann226 26
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