And it’s only Season One, you say?

I like a feisty space crew, and bonus points for Cait Gordon for creating a world where disability isn’t erased, it’s normalized. Humans are always mutating, doncha know, and too many fictional worlds leave out disabled people completely. Science fiction is no exception, and we should expect space to cause a whole new category of disability that our descendants will have to accommodate. But there’s no reason reading about it can’t be fun! Sci-fi is where some our best ideas are born and tested out.

Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!

In a galactic network known as the Keangal, where space is accessible…

Lieutenant Eileen Iris and the command crew of the S.S. SpoonZ haven’t a clue what it means to be disabled. An unexpected conversation with an intergalactic janitor brings up the question but offers no answers before he’s ’ported away.

Unfazed, duties resume as Iris manages an overprotective guidebot; Security Chief Lartha and her sentient prostheses offer kick-ass protection; Mr. Herbert’s inventiveness is a godsend (although he’s not quite grasped how to flirt); Commander Davan’s affable personality comes through whether trumpeted, texted, or signed; and Captain Warq’s gracious but firm leadership keeps everyone at their best.

Until on one mission, where the crew tears through space.

Just a little bit.

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From the author’s bio:

Cait Gordon is an autistic, disabled, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction celebrating diverse bodyminds. She is the author of the award-winning, disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! Her short stories featuring disabled and/or neurodivergent heroes have appeared in several anthologies and will be included in her first collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories That Fell Out of My Brain (2025, Dinsdale Press). Cait twice joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the (award-nominated) Nothing Without Us and (award-winning) Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies. She is also the host of The Disabled Crone podcast.

Find Cait’s work here: https://caitgordon.com

Read Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! here: https://books2read.com/iatcS1