Bodily life is an uneasy business. The terror of disease is a ubiquitous one. New diseases are being discovered all the time. This book collects twenty contemporary diseases — privacy, for example, or innovation, or involuntary compassion — and presents their primary symptoms and etiologies. It presents sufferers’ anecdotes: Owen wakes up one day made of glass. Deirdre is allergic to tourists. A middle-aged diabetic is haunted by the feet of a Kurdish refugee child. Apples develop a persistent tremor, and peanuts plot underground. Human resilience is tested in dramatic new ways in Disease.
Sarah Tolmie is a speculative fiction writer, poet and professor of English at the University of Waterloo. This is her fifth book with Aqueduct, the others being The Little Animals, which earned the Special Citation at the 2020 Philip K Dick Awards; Two Travelers, one story of which was reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction 2017; NoFood; and The Stone Boatmen, shortlisted for the Crawford award in 2015. Her poetry collection The Art of Dying was a finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. She has two books coming out this fall: her third poetry collection, Check (McGill-Queen’s UP), and the novella The Fourth Island at Tor.com. Her website is sarahtolmie.ca.
Genre: Science Fiction
Sarah Tolmie is a speculative fiction writer, poet and professor of English at the University of Waterloo. This is her fifth book with Aqueduct, the others being The Little Animals, which earned the Special Citation at the 2020 Philip K Dick Awards; Two Travelers, one story of which was reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction 2017; NoFood; and The Stone Boatmen, shortlisted for the Crawford award in 2015. Her poetry collection The Art of Dying was a finalist for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. She has two books coming out this fall: her third poetry collection, Check (McGill-Queen’s UP), and the novella The Fourth Island at Tor.com. Her website is sarahtolmie.ca.
Genre: Science Fiction
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