Tripping the Tale Fantastic

✍ Scribed by Heuer, Christopher Jon

• Book ID: 109985249
• Publisher: Handtype Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781941960042

✦ Synopsis

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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