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1 y separately published work icon Flesh & Wires Jackie Hatton , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2015 10086204 2015 single work novel science fiction

Following a failed alien invasion the world left is sparsely populated with psychologically scarred survivors, some of them technologically-enhanced women. Lo, leader of the small safe haven of Saugatuck, find their technological enhancements put to the test when a spaceship arrives bearing two men with both wonderful and terrifying news. Is this the beginning of a new era of reconstruction — or the start of a new battle for survival? Not everyone in town wants to fight every comer. Not everyone in town shares Lo’s mistrust of outsiders. This is the story not only of Lo’s battle to protect the safe isolation of her unique community, but also of her struggle to come to terms with a constantly changing and uncertain world.

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Shattering Ableist Narratives : The Wiscon Chronicles Volume Seven JoSelle Vanderhooft (editor), Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2013 8410887 2013 anthology essay

'In science fiction and fantasy, just as in the world we all inhabit, disability is often misunderstood, maligned, and disregarded, even by fans (as well as people in general) who are committed to social justice, anti-oppression, and equal representation for all in sf/f fandom. In the spirit of WisCon’s continuing mission to boldly go where no con has gone before in breaking down barriers, this volume of the WisCon Chronicles seeks to smash ableist narratives that keep disabled people from full participation in the present we inhabit and the speculative futures we hope to create.'

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1 y separately published work icon Spring in Geneva Sylvia Kelso , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2013 10498421 2013 single work novella science fiction

'Mary Shelley, a young banker's son, and William, an excessively tall man with a ''lividly hued visage, watery eyes, and blackened lips within a straggling beard,'' pit their wits and derring-do against Lord Byron, master of steampunk technology, and his thuggish minions.

''...my beloved Percy's ardor bore him to lengths I could not go. There were plans, between him and Byron, that I could not condone. I nerved myself to protest: you may conceive how difficult, against such visions, such intellects. When protest failed, I forced myself to act.''She took her hand quickly from my arm and drew out a handkerchief. I paced beside her, managing not to exceed my position as mere listener, until she recovered herself. ''Then I was forced to depart, in haste, and to choose between discovery, outcry, wrath perhaps, retribution and my child.''

–from Spring in Geneva '

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1 y separately published work icon The Secret Feminist Cabal Helen Merrick , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2009 Z1938629 2009 single work criticism 'In her cultural history of science fiction feminisms, Dr. Merrick explores the stories told about feminist science fiction by the various communities responsible for creating feminist sf culture, including authors, editors, fans, and scholars from across the disciplines. The Secret Feminist Cabal will appeal to every member of the feminist sf community, to fans and critics interested in the history of the science fiction genre, and to anyone interested in the production of feminist culture, history, and theory.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Three Observations and a Dialogue : Round And About SF Sylvia Kelso , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2009 Z1938626 2009 selected work criticism 'After WisCon 20, Sylvia Kelso engaged Lois McMaster Bujold in a rich, snappy correspondence about Bujold's Vorkosigan novels. "You ... remark that '[my] post-modern despair is not [your] emergency' over the failure of feminism to transform SF," she wrote to Bujold. "My postmodern despair OUGHT to be your emergency, buen'amiga, because one of the reasons you are being ignored is that ... you don't fit the male canon either in the community or the critical industry; so unless you catch their eyes with a sand-blaster like The Left Hand of Darkness, the male academics are also gonna find you invisible..."

That correspondence became Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and Published Criticism, which is published here. Also included are Third Person Peculiar: Reading between Academic and SF-Community Positions in (Feminist) Sf, a critical essay discussing the intricacies of an Australian feminist scholar writing about science fiction; Tales of Earth: Terraforming in Recent Women's Sf," which considers colonialism in science fiction by women; and Loud Achievements: Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction through 1997, which closely examines Bujold's Vorkosigan novels. (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon Absolute Uncertainty : Short Fiction Lucy Sussex , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2006 Z1481478 2006 selected work short story interview science fiction fantasy
1 1 y separately published work icon The Travelling Tide The Travelling Tide : Short Fiction Rosaleen Love , Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2005 Z1636990 2005 selected work short story essay science fiction
1 y separately published work icon Conversation Pieces Aqueduct Press (publisher), 2004 Seattle : Aqueduct Press , 2004 Z1481476 2004 series - publisher
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