Bone Dance

Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles is a novel by Emma Bull. It was nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Set in a grim near future, Bone Dance tells the story of Sparrow, on a journey for identity. The author takes great pains not to disclose Sparrow's gender to the reader, for reasons which become clear near the end of the novel.

Bone Dance is a rare combination of near-future science fiction (decaying cities, deteriorating technology, and the economics that accompany those factors) incorporating some classic fantasy/horror tropes, in particular the concepts of voudoun or santeria religious thought.

As with everything by Emma Bull, feminism is not foregrounded, and at the same time women characters have a great deal of agency and often a dangerous edge.