Signs of Life, by Barbara Krasnoff

[lb_lee]

Hey guys! I read a great women’s sci-fi anthology from 1989 in the sci-fi library. It gave me a lot of new additions to pluralstories, but one story that really stood out to me (and has no spirited/many-selved content at all) is Barbara Krasnoff’s "Signs of Life." It’s about sign language interpreters in a universe where the Deaf are overwhelmingly the space pilots. Krasnoff had some training in the field (though she didn’t end up entering it) and reading it made my hard-of-hearing ass very happy. I really wanted to share it with y’all, but the Visions and Memories anthology is long out of print and paper-only. Alack!

So I found Krasnoff online and asked about it, and she posted the story on her blog, so now I can share it with everyone! Hooray! Here it is: https://krasnoff.wordpress.com/signs-of-life/

That anthology was really ahead of its time, and I’m glad some of the stories are finding new life (and hopefully new audiences)! I hope y’all like it!

Comments

[acorn_squash]

This story was awesome! Thanks for sharing <3

[lb_lee]

I know, right? Such a good little story!

[sorcyress]

Separate from the story (which I'm excited to read) I am kinda thrilled by the idea that you just...proactively asked an author if there's any way to share her out-of-print work and then it happened. What a good situation!

~Sor

[lb_lee]

Well, she had uploaded it online previously, but the site had gone down and there was no Wayback Machine Copy, so it seemed safe to ask about, especially for such an old story.

And we have had similar success asking academic authors for articles they’ve written that are really hard to get!