Not so much recommendations, but novels that I can drag out of the back of my brain that have mention of disability of any type. I think that there are probably others in my collection (especially in the YA section), but these are the ones that come to mind and aren't overtly 'disability is bad'.
Lois McMaster Bujold's 'Vorkosigan' series has a disabled main character. I won't comment on how well or poorly she presents the disability, because it wasn't something I was thinking about last time I read any of the books, but I have seen them mentioned in other discussions.
She also has a stand-alone called 'Falling Free' which is about a genetically engineered group of people who are adapted for free-fall, and have arms instead of legs as their lower limbs. These people are better able to manage their native enviroment, but cope very badly in gravity - this presumably fits the exploring new disabilities question.
Brian Aldiss' 'Barefoot in the Head' may qualify - the main character was hit by the effects of a bomb that dropped an LSD type drug, and is somewhat divorced from what I consider to be reality. I found it a fascinating read, but was very hard going.
Bob Shaw's 'Dagger of the Mind' has a main character who thinks that he is developing a mental illness, but as it turns out to be something else entirely, it probably counts as getting it wrong (I am unsure on this, as it is probably 20 years since I read it, but some of the story has stuck with me)
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Date: 2010-06-12 02:44 pm (UTC)Lois McMaster Bujold's 'Vorkosigan' series has a disabled main character. I won't comment on how well or poorly she presents the disability, because it wasn't something I was thinking about last time I read any of the books, but I have seen them mentioned in other discussions.
She also has a stand-alone called 'Falling Free' which is about a genetically engineered group of people who are adapted for free-fall, and have arms instead of legs as their lower limbs. These people are better able to manage their native enviroment, but cope very badly in gravity - this presumably fits the exploring new disabilities question.
Brian Aldiss' 'Barefoot in the Head' may qualify - the main character was hit by the effects of a bomb that dropped an LSD type drug, and is somewhat divorced from what I consider to be reality. I found it a fascinating read, but was very hard going.
Bob Shaw's 'Dagger of the Mind' has a main character who thinks that he is developing a mental illness, but as it turns out to be something else entirely, it probably counts as getting it wrong (I am unsure on this, as it is probably 20 years since I read it, but some of the story has stuck with me)