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Walking the Clouds opens up sf to reveal Native presence. It suggests that Indigenous sf is not so new-just overlooked, although largely accompanied by an emerging movement-and advocates that Indigenous authors should write more of it.

— Grace Dillon

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About Grace Dillon

Grace L. Dillon is an academic and author who is of Anishinaabe and European descent. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program, in the School of Gender, Race, and Nations at Portland State University. She edited Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms.