Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinsonis a Jamaican speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novelsand short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionWriter
CountryJamaica
christian religious latin
I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.
style way stories
I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
war race white
My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.
mind trying sugar
I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.
hands perfection beats
Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.