Nalo Hopkinson

The New Moon's Arms (2007)

The Salt Roads (2004)

1. The Salt Roads is SO FRUSTRATING. Because there were a couple things I really loved about it and one or two things I hated with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. And those things seemed more significant to the book than the things I liked.2. First of all, I love the idea of the novel. It's...

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

The next stop in my end-of-the-world reading marathon was Brown Girl in the Ring, the 1998 debut novel by Nalo Hopkinson, a Jamaican born and Canadian bred author. The book doesn't fit in among the doomsday thrillers I've been reading and to even call this "science fiction" would be false adverti...

Midnight Robber (2000)

Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber is science fiction that doesn't feel like science fiction. It is steeped in science fiction traditions, as the narrative takes place in a future where humans live on and have colonized a different planet (Toussaint), rely heavily on nanotechnology, and have the u...

Skin Folk (2001)