Kintu
A curse returning across five centuries of Ganda history.
Speculative fiction from the world’s peoples, in their own languages and in translation — catalogued by the country or people each work comes from and, where the connection is documented, by the storytelling or cosmological tradition it draws from.
49 works 22 countries, peoples and anthology groups 10 linked to a tradition
A curse returning across five centuries of Ganda history.
First contact through the Cultural Revolution. Cosmic sociology as its central idea.
The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy concludes at cosmological scale.
A city that folds itself into shifts by class.
Contemporary Chinese SF in translation.
A second volume of Chinese SF in translation.
Earth moved from its orbit.
Two worlds running in parallel.
Structural inversion — the crime is known, the shape is not.
A post-scarcity health state and the cost of harmony.
Transformation as refusal.
An ocean that cannot be understood on human terms.
Alien visitation as litter.
An experiment city with no explanation.
The dystopia that preceded the genre's canon.
A Maya death god in Jazz Age Mexico. Xibalba as a real place reached by road.
Colonial horror in the Mexican highlands.
Magic worked through vinyl records in 1980s Mexico City.
A body assembled from bombing victims.
Iraqi writers imagining 2103.
Palestinian writers imagining 2048.
Class-segregated Egypt in 2023.
Bureaucratic authoritarianism as a queue that never moves.
A northern Anishinaabe community after the grid fails.
Post-flood Dinétah. Diné monsterslayer tradition drives the structure.
Raising the ghosts of animals.
Indigenous people hunted for their bone marrow, which holds dreams.
Epic fantasy: a world built on the cultures of the pre-Columbian Americas.
Ancestral inheritance and the whale-rider tradition.
Colonisation retold as science fiction.
Interstellar war and Indigenous conscription.
Cannibalism legalised after an animal plague.
Speculative autobiography.
Counter-science and knowledge held outside the record.
Shapeshifters across Mughal India.
Dystopia after the elimination of women.
An alien biodome in Nigeria. Xenosphere as a shared psychic layer.
Rosewater and its sequels.
An abiku spirit-child who keeps returning. Yoruba cosmology as narrative physics.
Orisha fallen into Lagos. Yoruba pantheon as urban fantasy.
Epic fantasy on an invented continent drawn from West African, and especially Nigerian, history and culture.
Abiku twin mythology in a contemporary frame.
Anthologies, each with the countries or nations its writers come from.
An anthology of science fiction by African writers from across the continent, edited from Zimbabwe.
Speculative fiction by South Asian writers, collected.
Science fiction from Latin America and Spain, in translation.
The anthology that gave Indigenous futurism its name, edited by Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe).
An anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer speculative fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree, Peguis First Nation).
A series gathering speculative fiction from writers in many countries, many of them in translation; edited by Lavie Tidhar (Israel).
Māori and Pasifika writing including speculative work.
Nothing matches that.
The writing of the diaspora will have its own place on DarkerSpace, built separately. It is not part of the origin lists above. These works are held here until that section is built.
The tradition field is filled only where the connection is documented or stated by the author. Where it is empty, no claim is being made.
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