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Cait Gordon—author and editor

(I arrange words and eat cake.)

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Tech stuff

Here’s what I’ve blogged about technology.

 

  • So long, Chromebook. Hello, MacBook Pro!
  • This Googly Author’s Journey toward iOS
  • Listen to your book. Literally.
  • Misadventures in smartwatching
  • My cyber reading buddy
  • Writing tool for a Google gal
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Book cover description: Four crew members of the SS SpoonZ and a robot stand on a planetary surface. The image of them is superimposed over a sky with swirling stars that features a ship whose hull looks like it’s shaped from spoons. The crew members from the right are Lieutenant Iris, who’s holding her white cane with the red stripe and has her other hand on the head of her aqua guidebot, Clarence; Security Chief Leanna Lartha is aiming a grey tubular weapon at something while smirking. She has two leg prostheses and one is glowing; Commander Davan waves a blue arm at Iris. He has a prominent trunk, which he also uses to communicate in his own language; And Mr. Herbert, Chief of Engineering, has his back to us while pointing to the sky.
"Readers, get ready—for the gleekin’ ride of your life! Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space is an exuberant romp that ditches all the stale clichés of sci-fi in favour of what’s fresh, exciting, and truly possible. Here is a tale that shows when it comes to accessibility, not even the sky is the limit. Buckle up and enjoy!” AMANDA LEDUC, AUTHOR OF DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, AND THE CENTAUR’S WIFE 
ID, book cover: Graffiti wall with “Nothing Without Us” spray painted in black. The list of editors and authors is included in the text of this page.
“I can’t describe how refreshing it is as a disabled person to read about fully fleshed out three-dimensional characters. Not only are we pulled out of our trope-ridden literary history, we are give substance.”
DEREK NEWMAN-STILLE, NINE-TIME PRIX AURORA AWARD WINNER FOR SPECULATING CANADA
Book cover: a watercolour of a brick wall in teal, brown, and beige bricks. Black graffiti says “Nothing without US.” And dark orange-red graffiti says “TOO.” Editors and author names are also on the cover.
“This is why books like Nothing Without Us Too are so important. Stories featuring disabled characters that are written by disabled authors themselves are inherently stories of transformation and the new—because they come from people who’ve had to view the world in different ways in order to get by, to survive, to thrive in ways that only we know how. Disabled authors don’t just ‘fix disability in their stories—they go about fixing, as it were, the entire world.” 
AMANDA LEDUC, AUTHOR OF DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE, AND THE CENTAUR’S WIFE 
ID, book cover: Two Draga warriors in space flight suits about to engage in a kiss while standing on a snowy mountain top. Overhead flies a space fighter.
“Okay, so if you like to laugh then this is the book for you. It’s not all laughs though. There are some genuinely touching, human moments (between characters that are not human at all). It all blends together so seamlessly, going from something that makes the reader laugh out loud, to just smile at the character interaction. This is a great prequel to Cait’s other book, Life in the ‘Cosm, and gives great backstory to two characters from that book who truly deserved to get their own to star in.”
JOHN HAAS, AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF DEATH AND MADNESS
Life in the ’Cosm book cover: A multi-coloured nebula of purples, blues, and aquas. A ringed planet. A little alien, resembling a fried egg with huge eyes, nonchalantly hurtles through space.
“Space is vast, dark, unforgiving, and cold. Some of the hardest science fiction explores those realities with a merciless precision of life-and-death scientific principles, and the realities of surviving the worst traits of humanity. Thank the ‘Cosm for Cait Gordon, then, who looked into the bleak infinities of space and thought, ‘But what about cake?’”
’NATHAN BURGOINE, LAMBDA LITERARY FINALIST AND AUTHOR OF LIGHT
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