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Publisher: Independent Arts and Media
Imprint: Reclamation Press
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“In the first installment of her Glitch in the System, Selene dePackh presents an unflinching look at an all-too-likely North American dystopia—a rapacious, eugenic regime where, as ever, disabled people are among the first to encounter the full force of the system’s ruthlessness. dePackh’s neuroqueer narrator, Scope Archer, joins Mishell Baker’s Millie Roper (Borderline) and Erica Satifka’s Em Kalberg (Still Crazy) in the new generation of disabled heroines—neither supercrips nor villains nor objects of charity—who take on the system with snark, resourcefulness, and anomalous minds.”—Josh Lukin, author of “Disability and Blackness” and “Science Fiction, Affect, and Crip Self-Invention—Or, How Philip K. Dick Made Me Disabled.”
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“Troubleshooting: A Glitch in the System [Book 1]” is a rare work of beauty, originality, and celebration of non-compliance without recourse to tired metaphors of disability. In the tradition of Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony” and Susan Nussbaum’s “Good Kings Bad Kings”, the story follows out the devastating results of a journey into the heart of the American disability gulag: the juvenile delinquency/psychiatric institution. Along the way dePackh delivers us into truths of neuroatypical, Native, and genderqueer reality that cause us to understand how the underbelly of the American experiment is designed to hide the in-built exclusions upon which “inclusive citizenship” is based. It is one of the purest expressions of the contemporary disability novel which turns on the ironies and innovations of the capacity of incapacities.” — David T. Mitchell, The Biopolitics of Disability
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Selene dePackh’s debut novel, “Troubleshooting: A Glitch in the System, Book 1” skillfully navigates the terrain of a near-future America, ravaged by civil war and environmental devastation, where people with disabilities bear tattoos that designate their difference. Escaping the brutality of childhood institutionalization is Dax, a strong-willed queer autistic girl accustomed to using both her wits and her sexuality to survive. A host of equally marginalized characters join Dax on her journey—most notably, Chill Dark, the engaging “known prostitute” and “wicked shot” who becomes her best friend and ally. An important contribution to the genre of neuronovels, “Troubleshooting” speaks to our culture’s obsessive privileging of neurotypicals at the expense of those on the spectrum. With its spirited dialogue, vivid setting, and rapid-fire plot, the novel delivers a satisfying emotional and intellectual heft—just when this country most needs a wake-up call. Books 2 and 3 can’t arrive soon enough. —Paula Martinac, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of Out of Time and The Ada Decades
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A sci-fi debut tells the story of an autistic teen’s struggles to survive her institutionalization.
In a not-so-distant future when the United States has broken into autonomous regions and disabled people have lost their civil rights, 15-year-old Sophia “Scope” Archer is confined to the Thunderbird Mountain “development center” for troubled teens in “the drilled-out, logging-stripped, mining-gouged backcountry of Wyandot County.” Scope is a high-functioning autistic teen, her condition marked by the blue puzzle-piece tattoo on her wrist that dictates how the authorities treat her. At Thunderbird Mountain she meets Chill Dark, a gay prostitute marked with the sociopath tattoo, who possesses a keen interest in post-colonial theory and turns out to be a crack shot with a firearm. A legal adult, Chill no longer has to live at Thunderbird, though he visits Scope and his half sister Angela, smuggling in supplies. Scope must find patrons on the inside as well, navigating the corrupt and sexually violent guards on the one hand and the dehumanizing medical treatments on the other. Scope finds a way to use her domineering sexuality to her advantage, but when the opportunity arises to exploit Chill’s criminal connections to escape her prison, she will risk everything for a chance to regain the freedom that was stolen from her. DePackh’s prose is dense and stylish, demonstrating an eye for both the grittiness of her setting and the sensuality that her characters manage to find within it: “Where he looked like he ate once every day or two if he remembered, she wore her appetites on her thick, strong body like the firm curvature of willful craving.” Scope is a character of immense depth and originality. There are few protagonists in sci-fi—or literature in general—that present an autistic perspective with such specificity and pathos. The explorations of ableism and sexuality in a claustrophobic cyberpunk setting make this unlike anything most readers will have encountered before. Though the universe dePackh creates is vast (and terrifyingly believable), this series opener is focused and highly intimate. Readers should welcome the next installments.
A gripping, lyrical, and ambitious dystopian novel.
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