Revisited: "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience TM" by Rebecca Roanhorse

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A tour guide leads virtual reality “experiences” for tourists who want to know what it’s like to be Native American. Think Black Mirror meets Westworld. For more great writing by Rebecca, check out her acclaimed debut novel TRAIL OF LIGHTNING, as well as BLACK SUN, the first installment of her 'Between Earth and Sky' series. You can preorder the next book, FEVERED STAR, right now. Check out rebeccaroanhorse.com for updates on her novels, comics, and television writing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Levar Burton and this is Levar Burton Reads.
0:12.3	In every episode I hand-pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.
0:17.4	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:24.0	Hey, Levar here.
0:28.4	Between seasons now and I've got over a hundred stories under my belt in the catalog and I know
0:36.3	it can be hard to figure out where to jump in.
0:38.7	So, here's a good one by the author Rebecca Rohnhorst.
0:43.3	One of my favorites who was shooting up into the stratosphere when I read this back in 2018
0:48.7	and is now a star by anyone's standards.
0:53.6	This particular story was option for development by Amazon as a movie so hopefully we'll be seeing
0:59.3	it on the screen sometime soon.
1:02.2	In the meantime, damn, did I enjoy reading this?
1:07.2	Take a listen and enjoy.
1:13.2	I am really excited to read this story today by Rebecca Rohnhorst.
1:19.8	Rebecca is an Ok Owinge, science fiction fantasy author living in northern New Mexico.
1:26.3	And she's another one of these multi-hyphenets who aren't content just being spectacular
1:31.3	writers.
1:32.6	She's a lawyer too in her spare time.
1:35.5	She's also been a finalist for all of the big science fiction awards including the Hugo,
1:40.2	the Sturgeon Award, the Campbell Award, the Locus Award.
1:44.3	And this particular story of hers recently won the Nebula, which is a very big deal in
1:50.6	sci-fi circles, a very prestigious honor.
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