by Carolyn Ives Gilman
I'd managed to both hear a lot about Dark Orbit and yet retain nearly nothing about it going in. It seemed like it would be a good Virtual Speculation pick, so I threw it on the list for October. On the surface Dark Orbit is a SpecFic re-imagining of Country of the Blind (with less xenophobia). S...
Neat story, with a lot of interesting thoughts included. Overall a decent handling of blindness, though it does include the idea that blind people like to touch your face in greeting (something that most seem pretty disinclined to do so, and rather annoyed at it as continuing concept)... and it st...