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
An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Themes include Slipstream, Contact, Sustainability, Apocalypse.
Making Kin with the Machines
Award-winning essay by Concordia Prof and collaborators. AI as approached via Indigenous epistemologies.
Robopocalypse
A sentient A.I. plans the elimination of civilization in place of a new cryptic ecology.
Take Us To Your Chief
Nine short stories explore Indigenous issues through 1950s era science fiction tropes and themes.
Corvus
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
An isolated dystopia – a picture of those who experience disaster at the edge of the world.
The Marrow Thieves
In a future Canada, settlers hunt the bone marrow of Indigenous peoples in the hopes of dreaming again.
mitêwâcimowina
Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling. Tania Carter, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle and many more.
This Accident of Being Lost
Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism and more.
The Way of Thorn and Thunder
The Kynship Chronicles. A fantasy world that addresses colonization and cultural endurance.
Moonshot
Indigenous Comics Collection. Watch for upcoming Vol 3 all about Indigenous Futurisms.
Future Home of the Living God
In the wake of a cataclysmic event, a young pregnant woman fights for her life.
Riding the Trail of Tears
In a virtual-reality tourist compound of the future customers ride the Trail of Tears.
The Black Ship
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 collection.
About the Series
The Indigenous Authors in the Spotlight Series aims to support and promote Indigenous authors and artists by featuring some of the Library's materials with Indigenous content, specifically focusing on works by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit authors and artists.