Science Fiction & Futurisms (Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight series)

Science Fiction & Futurisms

Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series

Our Fall 2019 spotlight shines on authors exploring settler contact, colonialism, climate change, notions of progress and scifi tropes. They offer multiple visions of dystopias, utopias as well as contemporary realisms and futurisms. Our short list highlights mostly books of fiction, some of which we just recently discovered and ordered, and others dating back more than 20 years.

Walking the Clouds

Grace L. Dillon, ed.

An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Themes include Slipstream, Contact, Sustainability, Apocalypse.

Making Kin with the Machines

Jason Edward Lewis et al.

Award-winning essay by Concordia Prof and collaborators. AI as approached via Indigenous epistemologies.

Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson

A sentient A.I. plans the elimination of civilization in place of a new cryptic ecology.

Take Us To Your Chief

Drew Hayden Taylor

Nine short stories explore Indigenous issues through 1950s era science fiction tropes and themes.

Corvus

Harold Johnson

It's 2084, and the world has been wrecked by climate change. But a northern city and its Indigenous community is thriving.

Moon of the Crusted Snow

Waubgeshig Rice

An isolated dystopia – a picture of those who experience disaster at the edge of the world.

The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline

In a future Canada, settlers hunt the bone marrow of Indigenous peoples in the hopes of dreaming again.

Love Beyond Body Space & Time

Gwen Benaway et al.

An Indigenous LGBT sci-fi anthology. Stories and fantasies imagining a positive future.

mitêwâcimowina

Neal McLeod

Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling. Tania Carter, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle and many more.

This Accident of Being Lost

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism and more.

The Way of Thorn and Thunder

Daniel Heath Justice

The Kynship Chronicles. A fantasy world that addresses colonization and cultural endurance.

Moonshot

Elizabeth LaPensée et al.

Indigenous Comics Collection. Watch for upcoming Vol 3 all about Indigenous Futurisms.

Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich

In the wake of a cataclysmic event, a young pregnant woman fights for her life.

Riding the Trail of Tears

Blake M. Hausman

In a virtual-reality tourist compound of the future customers ride the Trail of Tears.

The Black Ship

Gerry William

A young alien survives an intergalactic massacre and struggles to connect to her history and people..

Thank you to Mitchell Moncur for valuable assistance in putting together this carousel.