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Daniel H. Wilson with a Cherokee Perspective on Alien First Contact in 'Hole in the Sky'
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Daniel H. Wilson always brings a Cherokee perspective into his work, but it’s fair to say his new book does this more than usual, pushing the techno-thriller genre into unique new territory which has been described as Techno-Traditional – infusing sci-fi techno-thriller with indigenous perspectives. 'Hole in the Sky' is an alien first contact story from a culture and history that has already experienced both the strangeness and the horror of first contact, with a foreign and incomprehensible entity. We discuss differences between Western and Indigenous approaches to science and technology, and differences in how to confront the unknown in a spiritual context. We talk about Cherokee Nation Reawakening mythology, ancient indigenous technology, the Spiro Mound, and what questions to ask if an alien invasion were imminent: What is it? How do we deal with it? How do we survive it?
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