At first glance, there isn't much that connects Disability Studies and Science Fiction Studies, but this book makes a valuable contribution to scholarship. By combining the two, Allan advances justice in fiction and futures, and provides a fresh set of examples for disability studies, a field which is riven between the punk adversarial stylings of "crip theory" and outdated "victim & hero" tales. The 12 chapters take a new lens on such favorites of academic scifi like Delany and Stapledone, modern hard scifi like Peter Watts, and popular works such as Star Wars and Avatar. I'd particularly like to note Antonio Cascais's chapter on metaphmorphic bodies, prosthetics, and human enhancement as particularly well theorized and provocative.

These essays are not for the novice, and a basic familiarity with the prior literature is assumed, but they're clear and readable (at least, for an academic paper. We kinda suck as writers generally), and I could see using some of them in a class-possibly paired with "FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement."