Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life

Daniel H. Wilson On The Colonialist Fallacies Undergirding Our Failed Search for Alien Life

They say to write what you know, and so a lot of my work has Oklahoma in it—Native characters, Native ways of thinking—and it also has a whole hell of a lot of robots. For my newest novel, Hole in the Sky, I went back home, to to tell a story of first contact with an alien entity, set largely where I grew up on tribal land in northeastern Oklahoma. The novel follows NASA’s first observation of an interstellar anomaly, to its rapid approach, to i…