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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 Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction (2012)

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