Here is a guest post I did for Sarah Chorn, who edits a column on SF signal called Special Needs in Strange Worlds. I am very grateful to Sarah for giving me an opportunity to discuss the people with disabilities who appear in Dark Eden and Mother of Eden (the batfaces, clawfeet and slowheads), as I don’t think anyone has specifically asked me about them before and they are absolutely central to the world of Eden.
In this post, I also reveal that I am in a way the original for the so-called clawfeet. Which, now I think about it, may partly explain my decision to make the clawfooted Jeff Redlantern very wise and absolutely irresistible to women.