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This is a terrific anthology of speculative fiction stories by indigiqueer authors from nations that are now within the US and #Canada. I enjoyed some more than others, but there isn‘t a bad one in the bunch. I love that Joshua Whitehead put this together.

#ReadingAmericas2023

Breakfast with my daily short story. This is a strong anthology so far.

A powerful set of sci-if short stories, specifically collected from indigenous, queer-identifying authors. They all round an end theme of “…. But what if we tried really f*cking hard to work together” and I can‘t get enough. So much challenge of worldly thinking and cultural norms!

#scifi #fiction #space #tech #shortstories #indigenous #LGBTQIA+ #TwoSpirit

Most of these stories share a theme of the destruction of the earth, from climate change or alien intervention, and how characters (queer, 2 spirit) from indigenous communities are dealing with circumstances. If you are a guardian of the earth, do you stay to the end? What kind of new communities can be formed? What about AI or VR?

A solid collection of 2S and indiqueer stories. Each had a different approach to the speculative, and with concepts of family, queerness and place.

Here's a collection of nine stories by "two-spirit and indigiqueer" authors, with themes of apocalypse, kinship, and identity. No duds here, but my favorite was Adam Garnet Jones's "History of the World," an affecting story about conflicting loyalties in a situation of imperfect information.

01. Love After the End (Joshua Whitehead, ed.)
The Shoelace Book (Burkard Polster)
Paradise Now (Chris Jennings)

02. The Big Burn (Timothy Egan)

03. Oh yes, always. Right now it's:
The Silence of the Wilting Skin (Tlotlo Tsamaase)
One By One (Ruth Ware)
Checkmate in Berlin (Giles Milton)

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Originally, the project was designed to be geared toward the dystopian, and after careful conversations, we decided to queer it toward the utopian . . . For, as we know, we have already survived the apocalypse—this, right here, right now, is a dystopian present.

This book is a perfect example of why I love LMPBC and buddy reads and challenges- because even though I have a crazy TBR I get to read books I never would have chosen or known about. And I get to read a book ILOVED! “An anthology of two sprit and indigo queer speculative fiction” with most stories I wanted more!!! So many characters I loved- to be fair I‘m a character driven reader and this book provides! #lmpbc

I enjoyed this anthology, which contains a variety of Indigenous writers imagining the future - almost all apocalyptic futures. How do you write about the apocalypse when your own community has already been through its own apocalypse? How can Indigenous people survive and thrive through yet another crisis not of their making?

#ReadHarder2021: an SFF anthology edited by a person of color.

I think these are the books that have been picked for #lmpbc. @Soff @SamAnne @Chrissyreadit please let me know if I have your books right.

@SamAnne @Chrissyreadit @Soff here are my picks. The tagged book Love After the End, Riding the Trail of Tears by Blake Hausman, The Marrow Thieves by Dimaline, and Bury My Heart at Chuck E Cheeses by Midge #LMPBC

This was such a great anthology! I didn't want the stories to end. I plan to look up all the authors and find other stories to read from them.

Can‘t put this book down, highly recommend.

Speculative fiction from queer Indigenous authors: these stories are fresh, varied and imaginative. I didn‘t like them equally but I found something to admire in each. I also now have new-to-me authors to watch. Editor Joshua Whitehead‘s introduction is my favourite piece, for its scholarly yet poignant wordplay. The rest seem aimed at tween & teen readers. Cover art by Kent Monkman is perfect. #LGBTQ #twospirit #Indigiqueer #YA

Who names an event apocalyptic and whom must an apocalypse affect in order for it to be thought of as “canon”? How do we pluralize apocalypse? Apocalypses as ellipses? Who is omitted from such a saving of space, whose material is relegated to the immaterial?
(from the introduction)

Here is my first instruction: when the apocalypse happens, make sure you bring your kookum. Mine is named Alicia. She doesn‘t have an Anishinaabe name because when she was born they were only starting to get them back. You‘re going to want your kookum when the apocalypse happens because kookums know everything. Mooshums do too but they can get bossy and think they‘re right all the time, like the council does.

I ask, “How do we build a relationship with this new planet?”
She laughs. “I would assume like all consensual relationships: we ask them out.”

This one, thick braided and real ancestor-looking, may have made his way into her heart. Rare. I wonder if he is a Sixer or not. It would explain some of the tension between Dakib and him, maybe even give insight into some of the very tangible sexual tension. Axil must notice my ponderings, as I am now seated upright and watching. ‘Nosy Auntie‘ he would say, telling me to mind my own, stay out of their bingo hall.
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“I don‘t think you can call humans a failure. We built spaceships. We invented vaccines and …” She looked somewhere above my head, presumably scanning a vast imaginary landscape of possibilities. “… and spreadsheets.”

Just got this gorgeous Hanukkah gift from my cousin and im so excited to read!

1. Tagged!
2. I love short story collections but one of my favorites is North Station by Bae Suah
3. I like either but I especially enjoy when they're very subtly connected.

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My pre-orders just got delivered! I've been looking forward to these