The Only Good Indians ( 2020) returns to Jones's favourite structuring device, in which events decades earlier than the main action are resumed or relived by figures shaped by them as in most of his best work, these events, and their victims, are seen within the larger context of Native American life in the grips of an Imperialism which has come close to expunging it (see also Race in SF).
The young protagonist of Mapping the Interior ( 2017) follows his dead father through a portal deep into the family home, which is larger inside than out. Several later novels follow the same pattern. The nineteenth century Indian agent who helped destroy the Blackfeet nation in Ledfeather ( 2008) is condemned to inhabit the soul of a contemporary man, where he is visited by the consequences of his actions. Demon Theory ( 2006) is a horror story in which the innards of a haunted house and the world of Cinema are woven together. All the Beautiful Sinners ( 2003) is a more mundane Western, but with edges of immersion in legend. (1972- ) US author, a Native American, much of whose work has viewed the world experienced by Native Americans in terms of horror (see Horror in SF) the estranged possibly delusional protagonist of his first novel, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong ( 2000), embarks on a Fantastic Voyage through an America that he understands as a Post-Holocaust Weird Western nightmare, but may just be the contemporary world seen unfiltered eyes opened, he may be able to write a new world.
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