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Rebecca Roanhorse is a New York Times bestselling and Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Award-winning speculative fiction writer. She has published multiple award-winning short stories and novels, including two novels in The Sixth World Series, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, Race to the Sun for the Rick Riordan imprint, and the Hugo Award-winning epic fantasy trilogy Between Earth and Sky. She was the guest editor of America’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (2023) and a contributor to the New York Times “100 Best Books of the 21st Century”. She has also written for Marvel comics and games, and her TV writing includes FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, and the Marvel series Echo for Disney+. She has had her own work optioned by Paramount, Amazon Studios, Netflix, and AMC Studios.
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She lives in Northern New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and pup. She drinks a lot of black coffee. Find more on Instagram at @RebeccaRoanhorse and on BlueSky at @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social
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Hi! I’m currently around 70% of the way through Fevered Star and the nonbinary representation in this book means so much to me. Thank you for writing us so well!!!!!
❤ ❤ ❤
Eagerly awaiting the sequel to Fevered Star!
Mirrored Heavens. Hopefully more news soon!
So looking forward to this. Your storytelling is masterful!
I can absolutely agree on that. Moved to th US five years ago from Germany and this series made read much more in English. Love the characters and the non-binary representation with my daughter being in her journey currently. I’m really excited that you’re planing to add another part to this series. Thank you so much Rebecca.
Hermann
I am reading Black Sun for a twitch streamed book club. Tonight we are discussing chapters 1-19. I love this book so far. It was so hard to stop after just the first half so as not to spoil anything for the discussion group. I just wanted to say thank you for this captivating story. I can’t wait for club to be over tonight so I can jump right in and finish it!
So glad you liked it!
Just finished Black Sun on the advice of my librarian, whom I now know is a genius! Your book spoke to all of the ethnic stories that live inside me, and introduced me to new ones. Your writing effortlessly drew me deep into this book, and when I finished reading it, I felt a longing to return to this world. Thank you!
I was raised in North Texas, but am adopted, and am a reconnecting Indigenous person. Thank you for writing worlds that my younger self only dreamed of. Can’t wait to continue reading!
I heard you on the NPR interview. Black Sun just came out. I am not a person who reads fantasy. I bought the book to support you. Well, the book was a page turner and I could not put it down. I found myself reading it multiple times waiting for Fevered Star. I’ve read that one more than once and will probably read it again before book three so all details will be fresh prior to reading book three. I recently read Trail of Lightning and Storm of Locusts. Wonderful books.
I am waiting patiently and super excited to read book 3. Thank you for writing stories with Indigenous people, and with strong women. As an educator, I can say we need more books like your books. Thank you! ~Natalie
I am an 8th Grade ENL Teacher/ELA Co-Teacher from NY, and I want to tell you how much I appreciate your speculative short fiction story, “Takeback Tango” published in the anthology A Universe of Wishes.
It’s so necessary to teach students about the importance of returning cultural artifacts to their original places instead of those with power and privilege stealing and hoarding them just to put them on display and make money off of someone’s sacred objects.
Your story shares this message, and my students and I love the way this is conveyed in Takeback Tango. Thank you for giving a voice to indigenous cultures and native people across the globe. Your work is appreciated!
Thank you for reading and sharing with your class.
Love your Sixth World Series! I taught on the Navajo Reservation and my parents still are and it was fantastic to see the culture represented in literature. Will you be writing more installments of that series? Super excited to read where the story goes next.
Hi Rebecca, I live in Italy and finally “Sole Nero” has been realesed, two weeks ago.
I am finishing it tomorrow: I just want to thank you for the impressive feelings you gifted me.
I’m hardly loving this first book…Serapio one of the best character ever read.
Best wishes for a shining career.
Stefano
Grazie!
I started with 6th World Series and now reading Black Sun. Your art is a journey of possibility and indigenous worldview. Thank you for your gifts.
Hi!
I absolutely love The Sixth World Series and wanted to know if there would be more novels in the series. This was my first time reading anything about Navajo mythology and it awakened an interest in me. After viewing your work, I realized I’ve also read some of the comics you’ve written. I believe it’s fair to say, you’re now one of my favorite authors. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you! ❤ Glad you enjoyed them. Happy reading.
Will here be anymore middle grade books featuring Nizhoni and her friends? I loved that book and enjoyed learning about the Dine.
Thank you for the kind words. Unfortunately, there are no more Nizhoni books planned, but there is a short story featuring her and her friends in the Cursed Carnival anthology. https://www.readriordan.com/book/the-cursed-carnival-and-other-calamities/
I don’t want to finish Storm of Locusts because there isn’t another Sixth World book out yet to continue reading! Please oh please, continue this series indefinitely. Maggie is so good, so young and has so much time and room to explore many many books. Please. Thank you for all your work. I have sought a strong, dynamic, relevant sci-fi character for so long and here in the Sixth World you have created her.
Thank you so much. I’m so pleased you love Maggie as much as I do. Unfortunately, there are no more Sixth World books planned for now.
Can’t wait to read Mirrored Heavens. Awesome cover! Discover magazine did a story on Lake Titcaca island cultures in their November issue. I immediately thought of your work. Here’s the link: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/visit-the-artificial-islands-floating-on-lake-titicaca
Write on!
Lyri Ahnam
Thank you so much. Yes, the floating islands on Lake Titicaca are some of the inspiration for the floating islands of the Teek.
Hi Rebecca,
I first just want to thank you from the bottom of my fantasy-loving heart for all of the time, labor, thoughtfulness, intention, imagination, and emotion you poured into your creations. Black Sun and Fevered Star have become among my top favorite stories of all time, and I can only imagine the magnitude of heart and soul it takes to build worlds, personalities, and storylines the way you have. I just wanted to take the time to express to you how much your creations have impacted me and meant to me. Something I think about often as a lifelong lover of fantasy and story-telling is how disproportionate it feels to imagine what it takes to create, and how quickly, easily, and mindlessly one can consume that creation. Something else I think about is how hard it must be to put a price tag on that transaction as a creator, and to also live in the uncertainty of how your creation will be received or used, and how vulnerable it is to create for the public. Creators deserve to know how their creations are shaping and influencing their world — how the worlds they create and they worlds the occupy collide.
I couldn’t get enough of the Indigenous-inspired lore that took my imagination to places that made me feel Awe & Wonder, my favorite feeling, the feeling I chase the most in life. Your stories made me feel seen in the sense that it held a depth I feel always within me by weaving together the subconscious worlds of each character, the interpersonal relationships, the inter-community politics, all the way to the spiritual cosmos. As a descendant of native Ryukyu stewards of the land and sea, as a spirit-informed farmer and herbalist, food and land justice organizer, and as a queer mixed race woman, this story touched so many parts of me that a single story has never been able to all at once.
In my personal life, I have been deep in my healing journey of doing shadow work. I don’t enjoy talking about this too openly because I feel critical of the ways healing and even shadow work have become social media trends that lack the depth, vulnerability, and ugliness that comes with the messy business of healing. I imagine visceral physical wounds and the ugly stages healing takes on — and how there’s nothing cute about that. Our shadows are either denied, watered down, or feared by society at large from my perspective (of which there are detrimental consequences). Very few are also able to articulate the accountability of acknowledging that darkness within us beyond being victims, the seduction and even power that lives in the shadowiest corners of our hearts. And learning to see it as beautiful, worthy of taking up space, as fundamental to our nature—as necessary. Healing is not about banishing the shadow self, it’s about integrating with it.
Serapio is such a remarkable character. You’ve accomplished literary brilliance I think with how you’ve breathed life, love, beauty, and purpose into the shadows. I appreciate so deeply his complexity and the ways he is described to present visually. The entire Carrion Crow Clan is such a powerful identity. The arc of how Serapio and Naranpa intertwine in their purposes and their powers is one of the most honest tellings of how I understand the concept of balance. It felt like true Light-Shadow integration. At the end of Fevered Star, Naranpa’s understanding of Serapio’s role in bringing balance to a world tilted in the light for too long was so incredibly refreshing to me. The absence of the hero-villain binary in your stories in general is hugely refreshing to me!
There’s so much more I could talk about, like the matriarchal politics, the inclusion of disabled and trans characters, the class analysis of Naranpa’s background and Coyote’s Maw… spirituality being reduced to a science and symbolism only to find its way back to spirit again…but at the core, I think I just want to convey how much I felt your wisdom and gifts in reading the world and people you’ve created, and how expansive your creativity feels to me. It has made my inner world bigger and more colorful. Thank you for your creations, thank you for sharing them with us. We are blessed to participate in your brilliance.
Hi Sonia, Thank you so much for taking the time to write such kind words. I truly appreciate it and am warmed by how much you get what I am trying to do in my work. Readers like you make the work worth it. 🙂
Hi Rebecca. I’m wondering if you are on X as @RebeccaRoa4445? I received a follow and odd message from “you” and wanted to know if it was you or an impersonator. Thank you!
Definitely NOT me. My only social media is IG: @rebeccaroanhorse. I would report the imposter. Thx!
I just raced my way through both Black Sun and Fevered Star and I can’t wait for the conclusion of the trilogy! I am so grateful for the expansive world you created and called up out of the vibrant history of the so-called Americas. I didn’t even know how much I needed to read something like this. Thank you.
Thank you for reading!
I’m sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn’t find an answer anywhere. Will there also be a UK edition of Mirrored Heavens?
I believe so, published by Solaris.
Hi, I posted here this same question once but it seems my post did not get approved not sure why? There doesn’t appear to be a kindle release for Mirrored Heavens and the prior two books were, Is this going to be released at some point on kindle store as I would like to read on my kindle without singing up to yet another store front (solaris)
Hi Tom – I personally approve all posts so it takes some time. Sorry for the delay. My understanding is that my UK publisher is having some issues with Amazon that have delayed the release on that platform, and right now the e-book from the Solaris site is the preferred platform. I know it’s a pain to sign up for another store front, so I apologize. Unfortunately, out of my control. Thanks for reading, and, again, apologies for the inconvenience.
Thanks Rebecca. Apologies for jumping to quickly on my comment I thought it was being blocked. I appreciate your reply and understand that it’s not an issue on your side. I hope that they can resolve as I would like to keep the set on my kindle so will try and be more patient. This has been a fantastic series and I am really looking forward to this book
All the best
I want to thank you for the way you write Serapio in Between Earth and Sky. I am visually impaired and have always loved SFF, but I’ve never been able to find a character that I can really see myself in. It’s very difficult to find accurate blind representation in any genre, much less SFF. As I read Black Suni and Fevered Star, there were multiple times I began to tear up because Serapio is written in such a real way. Every time I would talk about blind characters who fight, all I would say was how I wished they used their cane to fight. When Serapio learned how to use his staff as both a mobility aid and a weapon, I was so excited. I felt the same when Xiala fell in love with him. It was so beautiful to watch a blind character find love without his blindness being an obstacle. I keep going back and rereading the scene in Fevered Star where Serapio is in the crowd of people and is overwhelmed by everyone because you beautifully captured how terrifying it can be to be blind and disoriented while surrounded by people. He may be the vessel of a god, but he is not immune to the struggles of being disabled, and that is what I love about how you wrote him. It’s difficult for me to articulate just how much Serapio means to me as a blind person; I could truly talk for hours about everything I love about his character (and I could talk for days about everything I love about this series). I am counting down the days until Mirrored Heavens comes out.
Your comment means so much to me. Thank you for sharing. You might like to know that I worked with a visually impaired writer to do my best to get Serapio’s character right. I’m so glad he resonated with you. ❤
Hey Rebecca, I just finished your between Earth and sky trilogy and I found it amazing. You have incredible world building skills and incredible character creation and you put so much effort in their arcs.
I will say, without spoiling anything, the ending to the trilogy left me rather heartbroken. One character in specifically who finally found her purpose in the work she does and connects with a lover hurt me so badly.
I guess it’s because I found a lot of myself in that character and for her to go through such a growth only to have that ending left me hopeless. I may not be understanding it completely, is there a way you can email me to flesh out what really happened?
The fact that your writing is so thought-provoking is truly incredible. I look forward to the next works you do.
Hi Juan,
Thank you for reading. I am so touched that my characters resonated with you. I know {redacted}’s arc was difficult, but it should not feel hopeless. All is not lost! And perhaps there’s room for more story in this world in the future.
Thank you, again, for reading.
Hey! Can you tell me if any publishers will release Black Sun in Brazil? I look forward to reading it
Yes, a Brazilian version is in the works! I don’t have any more information, but keep an eye out.
Hey Rebecca 🙂
I finished the Between Earth and Sky series not long ago and spent the last 100 pages sobbing. Not just at the book itself but also in saying goodbye to these characters I’ve come to love so much over the years. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten so attached to a story and the people in it as I did with this series. This series is something so special and refreshing in the fantasy genre. I hope this finds you well and you continue to write for as long as it brings you happiness.
-Fellina
Thank you for taking the time to let me know how much the trilogy meant to you. It makes writing worthwhile. 🙂
I just finished Mirrored Heavens and loved the trilogy and representation throughout! Are there any opportunities to purchase signed bookplates? Thank you for your writing!
I’m also a big fan of The Sixth World books.
I don’t have any signed bookplates at the moment, but if you reach out the Beastly Books in Santa Fe, NM, you can get a signed copy of my books. I’ll work on the bookplates.