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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin. Finding it a little slow right now but I heard it's an emotional read so i'm willing to stick with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh well, thanks for looking into it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Clannad is the one I'm most curious about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hey, thanks for this post. Do you know if the visual novels made by Key are accessible?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll check it out, thanks.

 

A few weeks ago I read The Dream Master, a scifi novel that deals with dreams and virtual reality that has a blind character in it. The portrayal of blindness was... not great, but something that struck me about it was that for a futuristic setting, it lacked imagination for what technology could look like for the blind. The only real inovation in that world was a talking guide dog (who the character barely used) but otherwise the character still took notes on a tape recorder. It was written in the 60s so maybe a braille display or notetaker was too much of a strange concept but I feel like they could have thought of something. Is modern science fiction any better? is there any science stories that involve futuristic assistive tech beyond just curing blindness with bionic eyes?