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Science Fiction and Fantasy by Indigenous Authors

November is National American Indian Heritage Month. To celebrate - let's read some science fiction and fantasy by these wonderful authors!

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  • Love after the End

    An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

    Whitehead, Joshua
    Love after the End is an anthology of stories focused on dystopias, especially the idea of humans evacuating a dying Earth. This collection has a very different approach to travel and to leaving Earth than you might usually see in other dystopian…
    eBook, 2020Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020
  • Take Us to Your Chief

    And Other Stories: Classic Science-Fiction with a Contemporary First Nations Outlook

    Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Taylor takes sci-fi tropes and uses them to explore how Indigenous people in Canada have been treated at different points in history. Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibwe author.
    eBook, 2016Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd., 2016
  • Stephen Graham Jones is Blackfoot. This novel is not as scary as his others and is good for readers who don't mind some creature horror in their fantasy.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — JONES
  • Prism Stalker is a psychedelic, technicolor exploration of colonialism in space. Leong is an artist and writer of Hawaiian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Native American, and European ancestries.
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2018Image Comics, 2018
  • A mystery story with vampires and werewolves surrounding a failing restaurant. Cynthia Leitich Smith is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and is known for her children's titles.
    eBook, 2010Candlewick Press, 2010
  • This novel looks at an Australia divided into Settlers and Natives. Native children are taken from their families and re-educated in residential schools to act as labor for the Settlers. We see the situation from multiple perspectives: an enslaved…
    eBook, 2018Small Beer Press, 2018
  • Future Home of the Living God is a dystopian novel, where evolution appears to be reversing itself. Louise Erdrich is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.
    Book, 2017New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2017. — ERDRICH
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow is a post-apocalyptic novel set in a small northern Anishinaabe community. When the power goes out, so do the phones and the internet, leaving this community completely isolated. Waubgeshig Rice is an Anishinaabe writer,…
    Book, 2018Toronto, ON : ECW Press, [2018] — RICE
  • The blurb promises: “Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and a cannibalistic river otter.” Eden Robinson is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations.
    eBook, 2017Knopf Canada, 2017
  • In the Osage Nation, a rebellion is launched: the lack of technology and reliance on traditional knowledge becomes the best chance humanity has to fight back. Daniel H. Wilson is Cherokee.
    Book, 2011New York : Doubleday, c2011. — SF WILSON
  • This story is told primarily from the perspective of a twelve-year-old boy whose dead father has come back to life as a ghost. But any benevolence on the part of the ghost is quickly put to rest as the boy realizes his father has returned for his…
    Book, 2017New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2017. — JONES
  • This adult novel by award-winning author Cherie Medaline uses Métis legend to tell the story of married couple Joan and Victor. Victor has been missing for over a year. Just when Joan is giving in to despair, she runs into him— or at least something…
    Book, 2020New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — DIMALINE
  • While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Roanhorse has said that she is…
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Saga Press, [2018] — SF ROANHORSE
  • In this Young Adult novel, global warming has resulted in catastrophic destruction, and almost every has lost the ability to dream—everyone except for Indigenous people. Now, they are being hunted down by Recruiters, who harvest their bone marrow…
    Book, 2017Toronto : Dancing Cat Books, [2017] — YA DIMALINE
  • This Young Adult novel shows a post-apocalypse future of Earth, in which violent tectonic plate movement has resulted in a modern-day Pangea, resources are almost nonexistent, and this new land is populated by strange, threatening creatures. Ambelin…
    eBook, 2014Candlewick Press, 2014
  • In this illustrated Young Adult novel mythology spills into reality. Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer.
    Book, 2020New York : Levine Querido, 2020. — YA LITTLE BADGER
  • Echo slips back and forth through time, witnessing Indigenous history firsthand while learning about it in history class. Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty One territory, the heart of the Métis nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2017Portage & Main Press, 2017
  • Here is a fast-moving action-packed Middle Grade novel that features Navajo mythology. Rebecca Roanhorse is of Ohkay Owingeh (Pueblo) and African American heritage, and her husband and daughter are Diné.
    Book, 2020[Los Angeles] : Disney Press 2020. — J ROANHORSE