To Kiss the Star by Amy Sterling Casil « Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction

Melodie – blind and confined to a wheel chair – is given the opportunity for a new life among the stars.

Title: To Kiss the Star

Author: Amy Sterling Casil

Length: novelette

First Publication: Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2001

Awards: 2002 Nebula Nominee for Best Novelette

What the Story is About: Author’s summary “24-year-old Melodie is confined to a wheelchair with cerebral palsy, a heart defect, and a retinal disease that took her sight six years ago. Amid the dreary routine at the Mary-Le-Bow Center, Melodie eagerly anticipates the bi-monthly visit from her friend John, a famous musician unaware of Melodie’s hidden romantic feelings for him. When a team of American scientists offer Melodie a chance at a new life by transplanting her brain into a spaceship, she knows it’s time to find out the truth about John, and the truth about herself.”

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