Fun Fact #2 about Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!
There are nine more sleeps until the official release date of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! This is the first book in my new disability hopepunk space opera series! Learn more about it on the book description page!
As I count down, I thought it would be fun to share one fact a day about the book and my journey writing it!
FUN FACT NUMBER TWO:
Cait Gordon
When I decided to turn a short story into a novel, I was stuck. Then the pandemic came, and I
couldn’t write. But the constant eugenics-based messaging pushed me to want to escape in 2021,
so I dove into writing.
I needed to live in a world where accessibility and accommodations were so much the norm, the
characters wouldn’t even know what a disabled person was. They just are part of the adventures
and live their best lives on a massively accessible ship within a bodymind-celebrating galactic
network.
Writing this book saved my mental health.
It’s true, I had gone from writing barely anything in 2020 to blazing away on my keyboard in 2021. Thank goodness for writing. It has been a life-saver for me.
The official release date is September 15, but you can pre-order the paperback today from many booksellers (and ask indie bookshops near you) and pre-order the paperback and ebook right from Renaissance, my publisher!
Cait Gordon is an autistic, disabled, and queer Canadian writer of speculative fiction that celebrates diversity. She is the author of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space (2023). Cait also founded the Spoonie Authors Network and joined Talia C. Johnson to co-edit the multi-genre, disability fiction anthologies Nothing Without Us (a 2020 Prix Aurora Award finalist) and Nothing Without Us Too (a 2023 Prix Aurora Award winner).
