But more than all of that, they guide us back to ourselves and to our relations on a shimmering trail of song and stardust. The stories here are difficult, they're beautiful, they're hilarious and sad and frightening and hopeful. And as editor Joshua Whitehead affirms in the introduction, Love after the End is a book we need right now - and well beyond the now. Our stories guide us forward into an ever-uncertain future, just as they guide us back home. With such a cacophony of anxiety, despair, and cynicism bearing down on us, it is sometimes easy to forget that Indigenous peoples have been here before, and we still remain to uphold our responsibilities to the world and to one another. 'The so-called end times feel so perilously close right now. Drawing on deep wells of history and experience, these powerful stories are sure to impress.' - Publishers Weekly 'Many of the stories offer portraits of a dead Earth from which new life springs, and all are ultimately uplifting, hinting at a way forward through the darkness of the present. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492.Ĭontributors include Nathan Adler, Darcie Little Badger, Gabriel Castilloux Calderon, Adam Garnet Jones, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, jaye simpson, and Nazbah Tom.

Here, readers will discover bioengineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, mother ships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.

Love after the End by Joshua Whitehead