Project Gutenberg 2010-05-30 Public domain in the USA. 103 Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.) 1915 2004 Wallace, Floyd L. Wallace, Floyd Lee Wallace, F.L. Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH Accidental Flight Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Accidental Flight" by F. L. Wallace is a science fiction novel written during the early 1950s. It explores the lives of a group of "accidentals," individuals who are physically imperfect and have been sidelined by a society of supposedly perfect beings. The story primarily focuses on their desire for freedom and the struggle they face against systemic discrimination that keeps them confined to an asteroid known as Handicap Haven. The opening of the novel presents a tense meeting between Dr. Cameron and one of the accidentals, Docchi, who are discussing a recent refusal by the Medicouncil regarding a request from the accidentals to form a crew for a spaceship. The accidentals, who include characters with severe physical disabilities, feel frustrated by their confinement and are determined to escape. As Cameron learns about the unrest among the accidentals, the narrative gives insight into their struggles and aspirations, setting the stage for their quest for liberation and self-acceptance amidst societal rejection. The chapter vividly delineates the conflict between the accidentals’ desire for agency and the elitist views of the Medicouncil, highlighting themes of identity, capability, and defiance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32597/32597-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 161909 161873 2024-10-14T03:59:01.477498 2023-09-14T08:53:47.387811 text/html text/html 159207 2010-05-30T06:41:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 510267 2010-05-30T06:41:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 498245 2024-10-14T03:59:04.896504 application/epub+zip 499672 2024-10-14T03:59:02.205487 application/epub+zip 109982 2024-10-14T03:59:01.755511 application/epub+zip 564125 2024-10-14T03:59:07.070515 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 553833 2024-10-14T03:59:04.604463 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 166469 2022-09-15T05:28:42.417361 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 148333 148230 2024-10-14T03:59:01.025504 2023-09-14T08:53:47.001815 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 148252 2010-05-30T06:41:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 56324 2010-05-30T06:41:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20521 2024-10-14T03:59:07.204482 application/rdf+xml 30029 2024-10-14T03:59:01.831491 image/jpeg 4835 2024-10-14T03:59:01.791516 image/jpeg 525864 2024-10-14T03:59:01.539516 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia