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• Love after the End

  An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

  Whitehead, Joshua

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take Us to Your Chief

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

  Taylor, Drew Hayden

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  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.

• Mongrels

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  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.

• Prism Stalker Vol. 1

  Issues #1-5

  Leong, Sloane

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  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.

• Tantalize

  Smith, Cynthia Leitich

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  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.

• Terra Nullius

  a novel

  Coleman, Claire G.

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Future Home of the Living God

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  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.

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Son of a Trickster

  Robinson, Eden

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  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.

• Robopocalypse

  a Novel

  Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard), 1978-

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  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.

• Mapping the Interior

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Empire of Wild

  a Novel

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trail of Lightning

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf

  Kwaymullina, Ambelin

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elatsoe

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  In this illustrated Young Adult novel mythology spills into reality. Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer.

• A Girl Called Echo Vol. 1: Pemmican Wars

  Vermette, Katherena

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  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.

• Race to the Sun

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  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.

• Prospector -- Moonshot : the Indigenous comics collection

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  Moonshot is a three volume collection of comics written and illustrated by Indigenous authors and illustrators across North America.

• Prospector -- Walking the clouds : an anthology of indigenous science fiction / edited by Grace L. Dillon

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  The first anthology of Indigenous science fiction, this was also where the term Indigenous Futurisms originated! Walking the Clouds includes Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors and is organized by…Read moreRead more of this annotation