This is maybe low-hanging fruit, so please forgive me if you have already read this one, but Carmen María Machado's Her Body and Other Parties is s t u n n i n g. It remains one of the (perhaps the?) best collection I have ever read.
Others in the speculative realm: Sofia Samatar's Tender, which boasts her trademark dreamy prose and wonderful conceits. Vandana Singh's Ambiguity Machines, which is the only climate fiction I have really engaged with in ages, not least because it's mostly dealt with through allegory and metaphor, and is always deeply thoughtful and hopeful. And Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love With Hominids, which is an excellent introduction to one of the GOATs and has some real gems in there.
And then, I'm sorry, I should try to be better about reccing non-speculative fiction, but here, have two excellent collections! (Both with Indigenous authors and themes, I notice belatedly.) Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, which is full of spare, human stories that evoke the American West in a truly wonderful way. And This is Paradise, by Kristiana Kahakauwila, which was the first piece of Hawaiian literature I read and has stuck with me through the years as, just, a necklace full of quiet jewels.
(Oh, ETA: found you through a mutual friend's Reading Page!)
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Others in the speculative realm: Sofia Samatar's Tender, which boasts her trademark dreamy prose and wonderful conceits. Vandana Singh's Ambiguity Machines, which is the only climate fiction I have really engaged with in ages, not least because it's mostly dealt with through allegory and metaphor, and is always deeply thoughtful and hopeful. And Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love With Hominids, which is an excellent introduction to one of the GOATs and has some real gems in there.
And then, I'm sorry, I should try to be better about reccing non-speculative fiction, but here, have two excellent collections! (Both with Indigenous authors and themes, I notice belatedly.) Sabrina and Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, which is full of spare, human stories that evoke the American West in a truly wonderful way. And This is Paradise, by Kristiana Kahakauwila, which was the first piece of Hawaiian literature I read and has stuck with me through the years as, just, a necklace full of quiet jewels.
(Oh, ETA: found you through a mutual friend's Reading Page!)