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Disability and Science Fiction: Further Reading

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Bérubé, Michael. “Disability and Narrative.” PMLA 120.2 (2005): 568-76. Print. Google Scholar

Cheu, Johnson. “De-gene-erates, Replicants and Other Aliens: (Re)defining Disability in Futuristic Film.” Disability/Postmodernity. Ed. Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare. London: Continuum, 2002. 198-212. Print. Google Scholar

Cheyne, Ria. Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2019. Print. Google Scholar

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Melzer, Patricia. “‘And How Many Souls Do You Have?’: Technologies of Perverse Desire and Queer Sex in Science Fiction Erotica.” Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction. Ed. Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2008. 161-79. Print. Google Scholar

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Works Cited

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