Fun Fact #8 about Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!
There are three 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 EIGHT:
Cait Gordon
Only one of the episodes is written from a first-person perspective and that’s “Episode 10:
Clarence has a POV.” Clarence is Iris’s guidebot, who seems pushy and overprotective in other episodes, but we find out why xey behave way.
It was really fun for me to show how artificial sentients and artificial intelligence have their own social culture on the ship. Accessibility devices and aids communicate with each other. Sometimes chairs race each other to unwind.
And it was important for me to have Clarence and Iris talk about their relationship because they have a history and are a team!
Sometimes I feel like a Clarence, trying to understand the world around me and questioning my usefulness. It was great to try to discover things from xeir point of view!
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).
