As Many Ships As Stars

OldBear brings together an ancient and vibrant culture and a chillingly realistic vision of the future in her stunningly original debut. Comanche astrophysicist Leia Wurahapt works in the facility where three ships are being constructed for an upcoming mission to colonize Mars. The passengers on these ships have been chosen from Earth’s 40 richest and most powerful families, and are fleeing the climate crisis they themselves have caused. But as Leia goes home each night to the large extended family she helps support and the dear friends who are fighting for their lives in an increasingly poisoned world, she realizes she can’t sit by and let catastrophe claim her people. So together, they steal one of the resource-laden ships and head out into the depths of space to build a future the colonizers could never have imagined. This vision of how traditional Comanche culture could adapt into space and over millennia will be refreshing to readers looking for a real change from standard generation-ship tropes. OldBear proves to be an exciting new voice in Indigenous futurism. (Nov.)