Navajo mythology drives the intense post-apocalyptic fantasy thriller Trail of Lightning, one of the best debut novels of 2018. Mags Hoskie is a supernaturally gifted monster slayer—but this time, her mission will force her to re-examine everything she holds dear. The setting is dynamic despite its bleakness, powered by Rebecca Roanhorse’s electric prose. The Hugo- and […]
N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy is about the end of history. At the 2018 Hugo Awards, presented last night at WorldCon 76 in San Jose, California, she made history. “I am on this stage accepting this award for pretty much the same reason as every previous Hugo winner,” Jemisin said. “Because I worked my ass […]
Today we are joined by Dr. Debbie Reese, founder and editor of American Indians in Children’s Literature, which since 2006 has provided critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in children’s and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society, to discuss Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning, a remarkable debut fantasy novel arriving […]
Another year of our Blogging the Nebulas review series came to an end tonight as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced this year’s Nebula Award winners, recognizing the best fiction published in 2017. We’re pleased to say that we’ve improved our average to .500, correctly predicting the Best Novel winner for the […]
On May 20, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rebecca Roanhorse made history. Significantly, Roanhorse’s story is explicitly about her Native identity and heritage, grappling as it does with the ways Indigenous culture has been appropriated and erased by colonizing forces, tranformed into something “Authentic” that bears little resemblance to reality, historical or present tense. The story […]