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A review by libkatem
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction by Grace L. Dillon
3.0
"I don't read a lot of sci-fi" is a lie I tell people. In reality, I don't read a lot of the typical (white male) sci-fi canon.
This anthology is made up of stories from communities I am not privy to, communities my knowledge of is pretty shallow, even though I live on land that belonged to the Dakota people before it was stolen by white settlers.
So this is a warning for white people: this book will not be kind to us. This is a book about contact and land and scars. Some stories are harder than others. All of them are fascinating in their own right. The point of reading this book was to make myself uncomfortable. But it was also really deeply fulfilling to read stories written by voices, some familiar, some new to me, that tell me things about communities I need to learn more about.
This anthology is made up of stories from communities I am not privy to, communities my knowledge of is pretty shallow, even though I live on land that belonged to the Dakota people before it was stolen by white settlers.
So this is a warning for white people: this book will not be kind to us. This is a book about contact and land and scars. Some stories are harder than others. All of them are fascinating in their own right. The point of reading this book was to make myself uncomfortable. But it was also really deeply fulfilling to read stories written by voices, some familiar, some new to me, that tell me things about communities I need to learn more about.