Items20The creator’s order
  1. 1Terra Nullius (2017)Terra Nullius (2017) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017Coleman makes the familiar language of settlement do unsettling work, following people whose lives are governed by categories imposed on them. Her Noongar perspective informs an Australian story that asks what readers assume when they hear about settlers, natives and supposedly empty land. Go in…0i
  2. 2Dawn (1987)Dawn (1987) 8.2/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1987Lilith awakens among aliens who have saved surviving humans but intend to reshape their biological future. Butler makes rescue and coercion difficult to separate, with survival offered on terms the rescued did not choose. It belongs here for the struggle over consent, reproduction and who gets to…0
  3. 3The Lesson (2019)The Lesson (2019) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019Turnbull places an alien presence in the US Virgin Islands, where arrival does not begin the islands’ history of domination. Residents, an intermediary and the visitors experience the relationship differently, while apparently ordinary encounters carry a dangerous imbalance of force. Read for a…0
  4. 4Foreigner (1994)Foreigner (1994) 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1994Human settlers survive on an island under a treaty with the atevi, whose politics and loyalties do not fit human expectations. Bren Cameron’s diplomatic work takes place within that existing order, rather than on a world waiting for humans to organise it. Cherryh makes concessions, technological…0
  5. 5The Word for World is Forest (1972)The Word for World is Forest (1972) 8.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1972An Earth logging colony treats Athshe’s forest and inhabitants as resources, while Selver’s resistance changes the society he is trying to protect. Le Guin shifts among the coloniser, the observer and the colonised to expose the consequences of that arrangement. This compact book, first published…0
  6. 6The Marrow Thieves (2017)The Marrow Thieves (2017) 4.9/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017In a future where most people have lost the ability to dream, Indigenous people are hunted for the marrow believed to restore it. Dimaline, a Métis writer, centres Frenchie and a travelling group whose stories and relationships resist being reduced to someone else’s resource. This young-adult…0
  7. 7The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2014)The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2014) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2014Ashala and other young people labelled Illegals have built a refuge in the Firstwood, while the state seeks to control their abilities and memories. Kwaymullina, a Palyku writer from Western Australia, challenges an official account of order through relationships with a living world. Choose this…0
  8. 8Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018)Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018) 7.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2018When communications fail in a northern Anishinaabe community, newcomers bring claims to authority along with their need for shelter. Rice makes survival depend on decisions about land, leadership and knowledge already held within the community. This post-apocalyptic novel turns attention from a new…0
  9. 9Future Home of the Living God (2017)Future Home of the Living God (2017) 6.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017Cedar’s search for her Ojibwe birth family unfolds as an unexplained biological crisis gives authorities new reasons to control pregnancy. Erdrich connects bodily self-determination to family, inheritance and the question of who claims the future. This is a terrestrial dystopia about continuing…0
  10. 10Terraformers (2023)Terraformers (2023) 8.7/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2023The people preparing Sask-E for sale discover that their employer’s plans depend on deciding which inhabitants count as people and which may be discarded. Newitz follows those disputes across generations, with ecological care and transport becoming questions of political participation. Read for a…0