I’m looking for alternate history/speculative fiction related to Indigenous cultures, and/or related to the islands of the Pacific (particularly Samoa, Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii), Mexico, and South America. I’d particularly like books that engage with social issue rather than wars. I want to read about other places and people as a complement to Octavia Butler’s Kindred.
by ProfDoomDoom
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*Red Smoking Mirror* by Nick Hunt. Islamic Spain never falls and contact with the new world is made by Jewish and Muslim traders. Gets compared to LeGuin’s style of anthropological speculative fiction, but doesn’t really come close – still a decent read.
Maybe *Nation* by Terry Prachett? Touches on pre-Columbian contact theory and an alternate history of British and Dutch colonization, but it’s more focused on the rebuilding of an 1860s Pacific Islander society after a natural disaster.
Clive Cussler has one about the Solomon Islands: The Solomon Curse. There might be another book or two of his that delves into those types of cultures too. But he has like 60 books, and though I may have read nearly all of them, it’s tough for me to pick out particular titles for specific story lines.