IF ALL ELSE FAILS

A collection. The pages reek with despair at the loss of Native American culture. With an Introduction by Jorge Luis Borges. Craig Strete, one of the few Native American SF authors, picked up three Nebula Award nominations for short SF, two of which are included in this collection of his excellent work. The television, an embodiment of the white man's control of mass culture, declares the Native American is a figment of the past, not of the present. Original authors such as Craig Strete, with distinct and diverse voices, who tackle tough themes such as oppression, the effects of technology, and Native American myth in a literary and experimental manner, are too often neglected in the grand narratives of SF’s past.
Contents:
Saturday Night at the White Woman Watching Hole (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
All My Statues Have Stone Wings (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Ten Times Your Fingers and Double Your Toes (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Piano Bird (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
To See the City Sitting on Its Buildings (1975) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
A Horse of a Different Technicolor (1975) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Time Deer (1974) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Where They Put the Staples and Why She Laughed (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
A Place to Die on the Photograph of Your Soul (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
With the Pain It Loves and Hates (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
When They Go Away (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Who Was the First Oscar to Win a Negro? (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Every World with a String Attached (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Why Has the Virgin Mary Never Entered the Wigwam of Standing Bear? (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Your Cruel Face (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot (1976) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
Old, So Very Old, and in That Wisdom, Ageless (1980) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
When They Find You (1977) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete
The Bleeding Man (1974) / short fiction by Craig Kee Strete

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Craig Kee Strete is a Native American science fiction writer, noted for his use of American Indian themes. Beginning in the early 1970s, while working in the Film and Television industry, Strete began writing emotional Native American themed, and science fiction short stories and novellas. He is a three-time Nebula Award finalist, for Time Deer, A Sunday Visit with Great-grandfather, and The Bleeding Man. In 1974 Strete published a magazine dedicated to Native American science fiction, Red Planet Earth. His play Paint Your Face On A Drowning In The River was the 1984 Dramatists Guild/CBS New Plays Program first place winner. More books from Craig Strete are available at: http://ReAnimus.com/store/?author=Craig Strete