Kinew, Wab
Entry updated 17 March 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1981- ) Canadian politician and author, premier of Manitoba (2023-current); he is of some sf interest for the Young Adult Floraverse sequence beginning with Walking in Two Worlds (2021), whose young protagonist who attempts to balance the stress of real life as an indigenous teenager with literal excursions into a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. In The Everlasting Road (2023) she finds it possible to create an Android who soothes her grief over her dead brother. But the Virtual Reality world, as so often, turns out to be an intoxicant difficult to shake: especially with the world outside darkening daily. [JC]
Wabanakwut Kinew
born Kenora, Ontario: 31 December 1981
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The Floraverse
- Walking in Two Worlds (Toronto, Ontario: Penguin Teen, 2021) [The Floraverse: hb/Chippewar]
- The Everlasting Road (Montreal, Quebec: Tundra Books, 2023) [The Floraverse: hb/]
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