BIBLIOGRAPHY of F. ALEXANDER BREJCHA
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BIBLIOGRAPHY of F. ALEXANDER BREJCHA
(A listing of fiction and non-fiction publications, biographical articles, and Media appearances)
Al.l. reprints linked on this page are posted with editors' permission, and I retain copyright to all posted material.
July
26, 2008
Fiction Genre Code: A (Action), D (DisABILITY related), F (Fantasy), MG (Multigenre), R (Romance), S (Suspense), SF (Science Fiction)
(MG, D) Click on cover on left for more info and to buy
People First! This is is a multi-genre anthology of some of my short
fiction (2/3 previously published and 1/3 original) - much of it science fiction
previously published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, including a
Nebula Award recommended novella which was also given an honorable mention in
Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction, 7th Annual Collection, (1990,
St. Martin's: New York. Each story has a disABLED main character in exciting
and challenging situations . This book was motivated by my own extensive
disABILITIES and desire to entertain mainstream readers and inspire readers with
disabilities to LIVE! But it's meant to be a fun read for all, using science
fiction, romance, horror, and suspense — and if it also happens to inform,
motivate, and inspire, then so much the better.
Samples
are available here)
(D) click on cover on left for more info and to buy
Laugh or Cry: Finding the Lighter Side of disABILITIES Co-authored with
Hollywood producer Sharon Hulihan who also has M.S., this large print collection
of anecdotes and essays by and for people with disABILITIES is aimed at
entertaining and educating both mainstream and disABLED readers by showing the
strength of humor as a healing and empowering force. For more info on the book
(in addition to the link you get by clicking on the cover picture, go to
book description/samples)
(SF)
Click on cover picture for info and to order No World Warranty Blending
high tech with romance and action, this epic science fiction tale involves using
nanotechnology and genetically altered plant and animal life (altered to
reproduce at an accellerated rate) to build a second home for humanity after
misused nanotechnology almost destroys Earth. Through nanotechnology, we convert
a dead planet the size of Mars into a living world for us to colonize - however,
by the time we get there it turns out we're not alone; and not exactly welcome!
It is based on, and continues, two Nebula Award recommended novellas written for
Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine - the second of which was given
an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois' annual Year's Best Science Fiction,
8th Annual Collection, (1991, St. Martin's: New York). * Recommended for the Nebula award.
** Has central character with a disability
+ Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction, 7th Annual Collection, (1990, St. Martin's: New York).
++ Honorable Mention in Year's Best Science Fiction, 8th Annual Collection, (1991, St. Martin's: New York).
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Another Scarlet Letter **. Novelette, Spring '98 issue, SF/A/D. (A new and more virulent AIDS has led to the formation of an AIDS Police helped by genetically imposed branding -- and an underground to fight the new discrimination. An accidentally infected man is drawn into a plot between police and underground factions -- reluctantly on the side of the police.)
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Viewpoint * + ** April 1989. SF/D (First-contact novelette with a psychologist trying to find the reason a newly contacted alien attacked a space station crewman. He is assisted by a paraplegic young girl with spinabifida who is Earth's most powerful telepath.)
Why?, * Mid-December 1989. SF (Another first-contact novelette taking place on a colony world where the contacting alien trots up to a camera to commit suicide. Why? To make things worse, killer insects are a mean distraction to the widow doctor trying to figure this out.)
StarStep, * April 1990. SF (Novelette, in which nanotechnology is used to build a colony world out of a barren planet, but resistance at home almost kills the plan. Part one of two. [An expanded and revised version of this is part 1 of a novel just finished titled No World Warranty])
The New Land, * ++, June 1990 SF (Novella sequel to StarStep, where the newly arrived colonists encounter a little glitch: among the life used to seed StarStep, one species has developed intelligence. [This is part 2 of No World Warranty. Another novella "The New Neighbors" continues the story and the book, but it was written too late for publication in Analog due to the time lag after the first two parts])
Examination**, November 1990. SF/D (Short story prequel to Why?. First-contact story that wasn't supposed to be. A century before the first official contact, an advance scout of the alien species goofs and contacts a man with M.S. in a wheelchair who is a science fiction writer [gee, where did I get that idea]. The problem is, the alien was only supposed to observe. I'm making the full text of this story available to all since it is such a good disability awareness story. I was reminded of this when three doctors [neurologists in Canada, New York, and L.A.] wrote me through the magazine and asked permission to photocopy it for their patients. If they thought it would help their patients, perhaps it can help some surfing the web, too.
Club Armageddon, Mid-December 1990. SF (Time travel story where people from the future travel to our past and present for excitement in our tension-torn times [tensions they help maintain], but discovery of their tampering causes time-line splits and disruptions.)
I'll Show You Mine If..., April 1991. SF/D (Sequel novelette to Why? where one of the aliens sent to Earth as ambassador suddenly freaks out and is now catatonic. The psychiatrist called in on the case has to face her own phobias to help the alien. Another "Why?" question to deal with.)
Defect?, * ** June 1991. SF/R/D (Short story about a woman doctor with Turner's Syndrome trying to find a way to prenatally detect and prevent it -- but her quest is complicated by a religious fanatic.)
Preliminary Data, April 1992. SF (Short story about nanotechnology research on increasing a bear's intelligence and strength to make cheap slave labor for a heavy-gravity world -- an experiment that succeeds a bit too well [story from the bear's point of view].)
Eavesdroppers, * August 1992. SF (Novelette about someone using nanotechnology developed for wild-life studies and preservation to spy on stock information to finance a White Supremacist return to power in post-Apartheid South Africa.)
Can You Hear What I See? * ** August 1993. SF/D (Another first-contact short story, this one about a deaf doctor who uses an adaptive-listening system to hear his patients -- and happens to overhear a crashed alien's frustrated call for attention.)
Looking Through the Personals *, October 1994. SF (A short story about a forbidden exchange of E-Mail messages between a lonely alien observer and a woman researcher at the South Pole who isn't quite sure what to believe.)
With Other Eyes, * November 1995. SF/D (First-contact novelette again, as an astronomer who first communicated with some arriving aliens is the only invited visitor to their vessel -- and who uncovers a shocking reason for the aliens' lack of curiosity about us.)
Trade Warriors. * October 1998 SF (Follows a woman cadet in an alien economic academy (50/50 Marine Boot Camp/Ivy League University) on a world where male aliens have sublimated war instincts into business, and females are third class 'barefoot and pregnant'. Aliens are forced to accept her to get trade, and get much more than they bargained for as she turns their social order around)
Waltzing My Tilde. November 1998. SF (Shameless pun intentional, this short tongue-in-cheek story is about visiting aliens who almost go to war with us because of an internet blunder on our part.)
Take A Load Off** November 1999. SF/D Note: 2-17-99 This story was originally accepted for publication in Artemis(see below), but due to the delays in starting this magazine, the editor graciously allowed me to withdraw the story and submit it to Analog which purchased it.(A woman financial wizard with a rare inoperable heart condition moves to an exclusive Lunar settlement -- and together with a new friend, uncovers a major illicit scheme to defraud the world. [this story is an unabashed commercial for the exciting lunar exploration and utilization plans of the Artemis Society -- see the Science Fiction page for the Web sites for the magazine and the society]).
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Take A Load Off**. Note: 2-17-99 See Analog listing above.
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(regrettably out of print)
I See My Love, ** May, 2000. R/D (Published quarterly on the web and in print, this story is based on actual events - about a blind man who wakes upin the emergency room after being mugged; without any memory of who the woman holding his hand is: his wife! The actual victim was a fellow member of a disability commission I served on - but while he lost two years of his life, he had been married for three. The devil's advocate in me just wanted to make things difficult.)
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(regrettably out of print)
The Living God Within, * January 1994. SF (Novelette about a woman minister who is sent as ambassador to a re-contacted colony world, now a theocracy, where miracles are routine. But there is a scientific reason for the miracles and the government is taking advantage of that -- until she becomes the instrument of a real one and blackmails the government into cleaning up its act.)
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Siren Song**, serialized in the April and May 1999 issues. A/D/R (True life-based suspense/romance short story about a police officer - paralyzed in a shooting - who in reaction shuts off emotionally and drives away his wife. Eventually realizing what he has lost, he tries to reconcile with her where she is singing at a jazz club owned by his former partner. But circumstances relating to his not-so-accidental shooting work try to prevent the reunion.)
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To Die For**, July/August, 1998 issue. A/D/R (Mystery short story about a paraplegic detective with M.S. investigating the apparent murder of a former athlete with M.S. who had become dependent on a wheelchair [a way for me to play the coping against the non-coping])
Deadly Ambassador, pending Summer 2003 (delayed due to start-up problems). (Science Fiction novelette which is a prequel to three novellas published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, about an alien ship accidentally shot down by the air force and which had a very annoyed passenger). NOTE: Apparently this magazine died still-born
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Regretfully closed, it published a reprint of Siren Song
and some of my non-fiction.
"Taking Off From My Wheelchair" and "From Wheelchair to Sailplane"
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To Touch Life ** 12-7-97 update. SF/A (Novelette with a female alien doctor who is recruited to try to heal a ten year-old multiple disability boy with traumatic brain injury who is now blind, deaf, and mute.) Note: to read the rest of this excellent magazine, click on the magazine title above for great fiction, non-fiction, and more. And for other electronic magazines, check out the SF Zines Web Ring.
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Regretfully this webzine has closed
Dying Breath. September, 1998. SF Rated best story of the issue by the readers (Story of an artificial virus created through nanotechnology which is keyed to a combination of the melanin in African-Americans and ANY blood alcohol, and then released in poor urban areas by doctors unknowingly infected by a white supremacist's company. Main character is a white doctor who discovers this when his non-drinking African fianceé dies after a single celebratory sip of champagne -- and the autopsy result shows she died of complications from chronic alcoholism!)
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Unfortunately also closed, but here is: Megalopolis August, 1998 issue. SF/A (Dystopian future story of a New York separated into the 'Burbs, 'Hattan, and The Ring: a series of slums between what was Manhattan and the suburbs. Follows a sociology student from the 'Burbs trying to learn about the gangs of the Ring - and she meets someone else who beat her to her study, but who has become really involved in his work.)
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Examination (2-20-98 update). NOTE 11-7-98: Unfortunately, this promising site was forced to close. Reprint of story originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact.
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Stranger on the Road** (July 2000) Reprint (see Spaceways Weekly)
To Die For** (August 2000) Reprint (see WeMedia)
Rollabout** (January 2003) D Semi-autobiographical story about a wheelchair-using professional writer with M.S. tryinng to come to grips with writing and living in reality (i.e.: writing honest auto-biographical work and taking steps to ask out a woman he's drawn to). Too ":Mary-Sue" for pro markets, it is aimed at this magazine's readers.
Victim No More (reprint link coming) (April, 2003) S Based on the history of previous ABUSIVE relationships of an ex-girlfriend of mine (one of a beautiful twin pair of ladies). What she told me so outraged me that I wrote this.
Crossover (reprint link coming after issue goes off-line) (March 2006),.F/R/D Original fantasy/disability/romance about a man with M.S. who switches places with an alternate universe counterpart.
I Just Need a Little Favor and Waltzing my Tilde. A double-header in the April 2006 issue. SF The first is about aliens who contact a character suspiciously like me (an SF writer) because they need some unique help; and the second was originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact (November 1998) and is about an interstellar war almost started by an internet error. Just for fun. .
It'll get better when THEY come** .(February 2007).SF .Story about an Earth recharged and driven to clean up by news aliens are coming!!
Dream Lover (September, 2007) R Originally written as a follow-up to Siren Song for Today's Black Woman, I got busy and forgot about it until I remembered it just in time for this. This a story written years ago soon after a story I wrote for Today's Black Woman was published (see Siren Song (April & May, 1999) at http://www.netreach.net/~abrejcha/siren.htm . While the editor also loved it as I am a White author sensitive to African American issues, it was also too long for the magazine and she already made one exception. But I was busy with other stories and forgot about this one until Car's request for stories reminded me. Hope you like this. My bibliography if interested, is at http://www.netreach.net/~abrejcha/biblio.htm . Love to Car for this wonderful e-zine!
Examination (October 2007) SF This story first appeared in the November, 1990 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Science Fact, and is a prequel to "Why?" (Mid-December, 1989) and "I'll Show You Mine If..." (April, 1991). However, the story stands on its own, and was prompted by an observation that aliens might do well to learn about us by observing how our society treats those who are different -- such as individuals with disabilities. I drew shamelessly from myself for the main character in terms of disability and occupation in order to educate the alien, and hopefully readers, about why disabilities do not mean inabilities. I only hope I turn out as successful as my character. I am posting this here because after the storywas published, I received three letters forwarded from Analog from doctors in Canada, New York, and California who asked permission to copy the story for their patients -- they are neurologists specializing in M.S.. I naturally wrote back to tell them to feel free. But as I assembled this web site, I thought that if they felt the story would help their patients, perhaps it could help inspire others, too. So here it is...
I See My Love (November, 2007) R Published in the May 2000 issue of Inspire (an Australian quarterly newsletter published on the web and in print), this story grew out of my former position as an officer of the West Chester Borough Commission of Disabilities. One of the other former commission members is blind, and around the time of our work, he had been mugged and suffered a traumatic brain injury. As a result of his injury, he had lost two years of his life... including his graduate school studies! Fortunately he had been married for three years and did remember his wife. But my nasty Devil's advocate of an imagination asked: What if?. It's a short-short slice of life more than anything, written and enclosed here to show the unimportance of disabilities given the right attitude.
To Touch Life ** February,2008,SF/A (Novelette with a female alien doctor who is recruited to try to heal a ten year-old multiple disability boy with traumatic brain injury who is now blind, deaf, and mute.) .
Crossover (reprint link coming) (May 2008),.F/R/D Original fantasy/disability/romance about a man with M.S. who switches places with an alternate universe counterpart. OOPS. This was in March, 2006 issue. So, new is
Siren Song also in May, 2008 D/R, a reprint originally published as a serial in Today's Black Woman (see Print magazines abo
Living God Within, (June, 2008) D/SF. This was published first in the big color monthly Science Fiction Age (a magazie now regretably closed).and an original eco-motivated political piece: Violators WILL be Prosecuted
And in July, two stories coming which were originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact Preliminary Data April 1992. SF (Short story about nanotechnology research on increasing a bear's intelligence and strength to make cheap slave labor for a heavy-gravity world -- an experiment that succeeds a bit too well [story from the bear's point of view].) andWith Other Eyes, * November 1995. SF/D (First-contact novelette again, as an astronomer who first communicated with some arriving aliens is the only invited visitor to their vessel -- and who uncovers a shocking reason for the aliens' lack of curiosity about us.)
And in August, a reprint of The Cure which was published in the December, 1998 Planet Magazine,about a quadriplegic writer paralyzed in a car accident that killed his wife, has continued writing - if not living - and suddenly he is faced with a possible cure... and it terrifies him. and an original story titled Night Voicesan older piece of mine I found on a floppy (remember those?). It needed a MAJOR edit, but I feel good about it now. It was written while I was working at Graduate Hospital and I was good friends with several Police officers whom I pumped relentlessly before writing this Murder-Mystery/Romance. I even had it read by one of my friends in blue, who said he wished he would have had such a night. So here is a night in Philadelphia I hope you find interesting… .
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The Cure** (scroll down to contents) (December, 1998). SF/R Featured writer of the issue A quadriplegic writer paralyzed in a car accident that killed his wife, has continued writing - if not living - and suddenly he is faced with a possible cure... and it terrifies him.
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Stranger on the Road**, September 11th, 1998 (issue #54 - 1998 issue - click on September).SF/D Selected for reprint in the First Annual SpaceWays Weekly Anthology, and Winner of the "Reader's Choice Award: 1998" (This subscription e-mail magazine closed, but here is a short story of mine they ran about a paraplegic science fiction writer on the turnpike back to Philadelphia from a science fiction convention in Chicago (gee, that was me a few years ago) who picks up a hitchhiker from the same convention who lost her ride - and claims to be working for aliens observing humanity (actually, the real one wasn't that strange, but she got me wondering).
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Regretfully closed, they published reprints of "Taking Off From My Wheelchair" and "From Wheelchair to Sailplane"
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(April, 5, 1994): Dear Abby letter on disabilities not meaning a lack of relationships.
(April 3, 2002) Opinion Column "Lifting Habitat Group's Stigma" (original title: "NIMNYD: Not In My Neighood You Don't"). Essay on how Habitat for Humanity is often misperceived -- and how my new wife and myself are having an accessible house built through Habitat.
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January 31, 2004 The Messenger Newsletter "Trying something new for M.S.":
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(October 18, 2001) Column: Technology can enrich lives in today's society. Response to Dan Goldfischer's August 7th semi-Luiddite titled "Machines make life more inhumane" that ignored the many ways technology can empower and enrich -- and even humanize -- life.
(May 23, 2002) Column: Of Mothers passed and present. Essay on my mother's forced 'incarceration' in an Alzheimer's specific nursing home - and of how stem cell research holds hope for us both.
(? I forgot about this and lost the issue and have to check. Around late May, 2003) Your health care sucks! Essay on how HMO-fever has compromised patient care and hurt both patients and doctors.
(March, 3, 2004) Column: Professionals need to pay attention to patients (Original title: "Attention: Teachers and Doctors". Essay on how teachers and doctors misdiagnosed one of my attendants and the daughter of another.
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Who Says You Have to be Cynical? (October, 2001) Essay: Discussion describing how I discovered good things and people during a five month hospitalization that cost me $12,000 in deductables and lost income.
Finding Cures Isn't Good Business** (March, 2002) Essay: Cynical discussion of why there isn't a motive to find cures for disabilities.
What: Me Change?** (April, 2002) Essay: Essay responding to "Theme ofthe month: What accommodations have your M.S. forced you to make".
Of Mothers passed and present** (July, 2002) Essay: Reprint of _Metro_ essay above.
What has M.S. given you?** (November, 2002) Essay: Essay responding to "Theme of the month of the same name..
"The way inspiration muses give me ideas by whispering in my ear while I sleep." (March, 2003) Essay: Essay on the theme of the month: "Inspiration". Longwinded title, but a piece on how I get ideas, and how others can stimulate their muses.
Keeping Physically Fit: An Intro: (June, 2003) Essays/Resources on the theme of the month: Exercise. To read the original, go to my pages on Keeping Physically Fit
Of Christmases Past and Passed (December, 2003) Essay: Essay on the Christmas theme of the month based on my true Christmas memories.
A New Technology to Help Typing (March, 2004) Essay: Essay on the Changes of Life theme of the month. This is about an inexpensive and fairly good voice recognition program.
Trying Out Something New for M.S. (March, 2004) Essay: Another Essay on the Changes of Life theme of the month, this one about using LDN (Naltrexone) which my wife and I are both using...
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(December 15 to January 15, 2004 issue) Life Force section essay: Looking Out and Looking In, essay on how Philadelphia was part of my maturing process and still special to me.
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(January 22, 1993): Opinion Page: Letter responding to a politician's letter defending his air travel - at tax-payer expense - because of his severe handicap: a bad back.)
(April, 5, 1994): Dear Abby letter on disabilities not meaning a lack of relationships.
(July 2, 1997): She was 'Doctor' Shabazz Letter expressing frustration that the paper, KYW News Radio (Philly's top news radio station), and CNN all showed disrespect to Dr.Betty Shabazz when talking about her death. All ignored her earned doctorate when talking about her (my mother sometimes still has to remind folks of her Ph.D. and that made me more sensitive to this).
(September 23, 1998): Loneliness: It's not on the Internet. Guest Opinion essay rebutting Donald Kaul's syndicated column "Coming to a screen near you: Mayhem, boredom and depression" (printed in the September 8, 1998 Daily News), where he referred to a questionable Carnegie Mellon University study finding increased loneliness and depression among internet users and stated that the Internet is "...probably not a good thing for society..."
(?? 2001? - lost the issue)Good Sex My response to Chris Fariello's column - he gave me his entire column space for my response to his commentary on why sex is more between the ears than between the legs (very much agree, and gave my reasons why).
To read the Daily News and Inquirer pieces, click here.
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(July 27, 1995): The Mainstream is getting used to the disabled (not my title!). Opinion page commentary on how Philadelphia has changed after the ADA and increased disability awareness. (to read this click the link for the Daily News and Inquirer pieces above).
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(March 29, 1989): . Traveling Despite Physical Disabilities Feature article on travel advice for people with disabilities.
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(Provincial newspaper for the Dalsland province in Sweden, where my home town is located.
(November 8, 1997): ("Uppspårad på Internätet - Efter Trettio År" ["Discovered on the Internet -- After Thirty Years"]), Article on how another article about me and my activities as a writer and disability advocate (see Biographical Publications) in the same newspaper led to former elementary school classmates finding me and writing me via the internet (I came to the states as a ten year-old in 1968 from the town of Åmål). Click here to read it på svenska or in English, or in a frames version with both languages side to side/med båda språk bredvid varandra.
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(May/June, 1993): From Wheelchair to Sailplane. Photo-illustrated feature article on sailplane piloting lessons and flights for people with disabilities. ( click here to read both flying articles and see the rest of the photos.)
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(May, 1993): Taking Off From My Wheelchair. Essay for "Exit Ramp" section on my piloting lessons (see Sports 'N Spokes
below)
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(July, 1996): Taking Off From My Wheelchair. (Reprint of New Jersey Monthly essay - see below).
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(Summer, 1998) Taking Off From My Wheelchair (Re-print of myNew Jersey Monthly essay but with new pictures.)
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(Summer, 1999) Pulp Fiction: Playing With Problem Solving Article on using writing to focus your mind on helping solve your own problems. Published in the quarterly magazine of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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(Winter, 1999): From Arts to Letters. Autobiographic essay to provide advice on employment options.
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(Winter, 1999) Pulp Fiction: Playing With Problem Solving. Article on using writing to focus your mind on helping solve your own problems. (Dialogue is a quarterly magazine from Blindskills, Inc.). Reprint from Inside M.S. (see above).
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(October, 2001) Treatment Precautions for Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Patients with Sacral Decububitus Ulcers (Clinical commentary to educate surgeons about the different treatment needs of patients with disabilities. Due to wound care mismanagement I spent five months in a hospital at a cost to me of $12,000. There was no no need for that!) Note: new resource added on May 16, 2006
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(October, 1999) That's Life Script and video material selection (video tape and stll photos) for a five-minute video tape on living with a disability intended as an advocacy vehicle to foster disability funding -- to be shown to state government representatives.
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Chester County Living (magazine for Sunday Daily Local News [West Chester, PA]) (June 4, 1989): Bound to Travel, by Florence Robinson. Feature article on my traveling as a man with disabilities.
Chester County Living (magazine for Sunday Daily Local News) (September 29, 1991): Good World of Science Fiction, by John Chambless. Cover story on my side-line as a science fiction writer with disabilities while working as a Graduate Hospital telephone operator.
MS Impressions (quarterly newsletter for the Greater Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society [Philadelpia, PA]) (Summer, 1993): MS People, by Greg Vellner. Interview and story on my sailplane piloting lessons and writing career.
Provinstidningen Dalsland (Provincial newspaper for the Dalsland province in Sweden) (January 21, 1995): Lång Väg Från Åmål ("A long way from Åmål"), by Ann B. Weissmann, Ph.D.. Article on home town boy's life and activities as hospital worker, freelance writer and disability advocate in the U.S.A. (I came to the states as a ten year-old in 1968 from the town of Åmål).
The Philadelphia Inquirer. (Sunday Neighbors Section) (February 12, 1995): Using His Skill to Change Attitudes, by Rachel E. Stassen-Berger. Feature story on my job at Graduate Hospital, writing, and disability advocacy.
Image (quarterly Marketing and Public Relations magazine for the seven-hospital Graduate Health Systems) (Summer 1995 issue).: Graduate's Telephone Operator has the Write Stuff., by Charles McElrone, Personal profile.
Allegheny News (bi-weekly newspaper published by Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation serving the entire Allegheny community of 13 hospitals) (August 18, 1997): Allegheny Graduate Hospital Telephone Operator Publishes Sci-Fi Writing,.by Sue Chastain. Profile on my job at science fiction writing, advocacy efforts, and job as night shift telephone operator.
Philadelphia Daily News ( p.56, July 9, 1998): Cyberia web site review, by Melanie C. Redmond.
Yahoo Internet Life, (p.83, December 1998). Touched By The Web, web site reviwew, "Changing Perceptions of Disabilities", by Matt Richtel.
New Mobility, (August, 2001) M.S. Life, "Wings, Wheels, and Weddings", by Josie Byzek. Article on my piloting lessons, disabilitiers and wedding.
New Mobility, (May, 2002) M.S. Life, "Digital Dating", by Josie Bysek and Jean Dobbs. Article on Internet dating including a description of how I met my wife through this web site.
Phoenix / Phoenixville News.com (April 26, 2003), "Handicapped pair get Habitat house", by Dennis J. Wright. Article on groundbreaking for the house Habitat for Humanity of Chester County (Pennsylvania) is building for my wife and I.
Phoenix / Phoenixville News.com (January 24, 2004), "Builder donates work to start Habitat home", by Bill Rettew, Jr.. Article on the completion of the framing and roofing on our house.
New Mobility, (December, 2004) M.S. Life, "Three New Books", by Josie Byzek. Article on my just published books and web site.
Disability News and Views , (December 19, 2004). Weekly Radio show covering N.Y. and SE Canada.. Interviewed by Nick Moshenko (sitting in for regular host Monica Moshenko) about my books and web site. Real Audio file of interview available on the site (click on "Past Shows" and scroll down to the Dec. 19th listing and click on "Listen" and speaker icon). First half hour was Jeff Hirschfelt - The National Statler Center for Careers in Hospitality Service, and my interview was the second half of the show.
MSFocus, (Winter, 2005 - ironically the first issue of the year), "Reaching Beyond and Making Contact", by Christine Ratliff, profile of me, my web site, and my books.
For the Health of It July (?) 2006. Weekly Cable Television show on Phantom TV in the Phoenixville Pennsylvania area, hosted by Lou Beccaria. Interview based on my life as an extensively handicapped man who works full-ti me and uses this web site and my writing - especially two of my books - to inspire and inform ALL people.
Technically Speaking September 17, 2006. Weekly Philadelphia area Radio show on 900 a,m,, WURD. Interviewed by JC Lamkin as part of the show starting a topic on enabling power of technology on people with disabilities.
Technically Speaking October 1, 2006. Weekly Philadelphia area Radio show on 900 a,m,, WURD. Interviewed by JC Lamkin as part of a show on National Disability Employment Awareness Month
The Communicator February, 2007, Marketing and Public Relations publication of Graduate Hospital, "Alex Brejcha Connects with Others through Passion for Writing", Marisa Sharkey., profile of me as an employee with extensive disabilities who works full-time and uses writing to help others.
MS Connection (formerly MS Impressions) (quarterly newsletter for the Greater Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society [Philadelpia, PA]) (Winter, 2007 [February 2007]): "Face of M.S.: Alexander Brejcha", by Kristin Voorhees
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