SFF Novels By Native American Authors

In an America like our own, but perhaps a bit in the future and just a little more supernatural, Ellie is a Lipan Apache girl who wants to be a paranormal investigator, partially because of her skill for speaking with the ghosts of dead animals. When her cousin is murdered near a town that is eerily perfect, she makes solving that mystery her first official mission, with the help of friends and family.

In the near future, an AI called Archos, disguised as a shy little boy, makes a hostile takeover of the “smart” technology that governs every aspect of human life. Some humans have an inkling that things are going wrong with technology, but it’s too little, too late, and Zero Hour arrives with decimating force that could destroy humanity forever… or perhaps unite it.

A mysterious condition has hit humanity across the globe; children are suddenly being born that appear to be from primitive pre-human species. For Cedar Hawk Songmaker, this disturbing change is personally terrifying, because she is four months pregnant. An adoptee, she decides to search for her birth parents before her own child is born as society begins to unravel around her.

In near-future America, the Trail of Tears has been rendered into a ride at a virtual reality tourist compound in Georgia. Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there, is caught up in strange events as tourists begin falling unconscious on the ride–and the ride’s programming is being twisted by someone to tell a different narrative.

The winter solstice in Tova is normally a time of renewal, but this year it brings a solar eclipse, the possible fulfillment of a terrifying prophecy, and the collision of politics, religious oppression, and the struggle of cultures that have been bound together by conquest. It comes at the hand of Serapio, a young man who has been blinded and scarred, who may fulfill his destiny and become a god, and Xiala, who should fear him–and doesn’t.

Calliope is pregnant with twins and not long from giving birth when she awakens to a New Mexico transformed into a sinister, haunted wasteland where she seems to be one of the few people left alive. As long-quiescent volcanoes erupt and monsters come to life, she has to find a way to reconcile what she sees in the geological record and what she knows of her long-denied heritage if she wants to survive.

There’s a kid who has had it really tough, living a poor and hardscabble life of constantly moving, trying to coexist with a society that does not want or understand his family, who are called mongrels or mixed blood. Still, he wants nothing more than to grow up to be like the people who have raised him: his grandfather, his Aunt Libby, and his Uncle Darren… all of whom are werewolves.