Walking the clouds : an anthology of indigenous science fiction

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Title:

Added Author:

Dillon, Grace L., editor.

Series:

Sun tracks : an American Indian literary series ; v. 69

Sun tracks ; v. 69.

Publication Date:

2012

Publication Information:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9780816529827

Abstract:

In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.

Contents:

Imagining Indigenous futurisms -- The native slipstream. Custer on the slipstream / Gerald Vizenor -- Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / Diane Glancy -- from The fast red road : a plainsong / Stephen Graham Jones -- from Flight / Sherman Alexie -- Contact. from Refugees / Celu Amberstone -- from The black ship / Gerry William -- Men on the moon / Simon Ortiz -- Indigenour science and sustainability. from Midnight robber / Nalo Hopkinson -- from Darkness in St. Louis : bearheart / Gerald Vizenor -- from Mindscape / Andrea Hairston -- from Land of the golden clouds / Archie Weller -- Native apocalypse. Distances / Sherman Alexie -- When this world is all on fire / William Sanders -- from The moons of palmares / Zainab Amadahy -- from Red spider, white web / Misha -- Biskaabiiyang, "returning to ourselves." Terminal Avenue / Eden Robinson -- from Almanac of the dead / Leslie Marmon Silko -- from The bird is gone : a monograph manifesto / Stephen Graham Jones -- from Star waka / Robert Sullivan (Ngā Pushi).

Subject Term:

Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Fiction.

Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction.

Māori fiction.

American fiction -- 20th century.

American fiction -- 21st century.

New Zealand fiction.

Indigenous authors.

Genre:

Science fiction, Canadian.

American fiction.

Canadian fiction.