![]() ![]() ![]() The people and communities presented here try to survive in a variety of ways, whether by refusing to leave a seemingly dying Earth to reenact colonialism on another planet in Adam Garnet Jones’ “History of the New World” by escaping forced conscription on Mars by leaving on generation ships in jaye simpson’s “The Ark of the Turtle’s Back” or by becoming a new type of synthetic human and facing the threat of genocide once again in Mari Kusato’s “Seed Children.” There are also stories that relate encounters in a new world, from a bio-engineered AI rat trying to find freedom in Nathan Adler’s “Abacus” to a girl trying to escape a floating doomsday city in Darcie Little Badger’s “Story for a Bottle.” These stories are a welcome breath of fresh air in the often hyperindividualist, survivalist subgenre of postapocalyptic fiction, and are essential reading for anyone committed to the possibilities of sf as a means to create new and different futures. Most of the stories share a sensibility rooted in the fact that for all Indigenous people, but for Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous people especially, there has already been a vast apocalypse. Read Love after the End An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() A variety of Two-Spirit/queer Indigenous authors explore events during or after an apocalypse. ![]()
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