[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]To be honest, I had no idea who Nalo Hopkinson was until I requested this book. But I was definitely interested to read stories by an author who seemed to have an approach stemming from a different culture than mine...
It's Carnival on the planet of Toussaint, and young Tan-Tan dons her favorite guise, that of the Robber Queen. But bigger games are afoot, and Tan-Tan is inadvertently caught up with her father's trespass and taken into exile as he escapes to New Half-Way Tree. From a world where manual labor is a...
Nalo Hopkinson’s stories are hybrids, blending science fiction and fantasy, Western and Afro-Caribbean influences, pain and joy, the real and the unreal. She has a particular talent for blending the magical and the mundane in surprising ways. As a writer of short stories that are specifically fant...
93. THE SALT ROADS, BY NALO HOPKINSONRecommended by Carlos. Not what I was expecting, and a somewhat unusual book.Synopsis: Ezili, something like a small goddess, who can travel through space and time, experiences life within the spirits of three women: Mer, a plantation slave in Haiti, Jeanne Duval...
Ok, standard disclaimer that I seem to have to write every time I review a collection of short stories – I don’t particularly like them. I am not a fan of short stories, I’m not fan of stand alone stories that aren’t part of a larger series and I’m not a fan of collections of stories that aren’t rel...
Hopkinson's stories always make for an interesting read. I love the way her fiction tends to blend Jamaican folklore, urban life, and a critical look at social justice issues. As Hopkinson herself puts it in her foreword, "I see the ways in which science fiction is too often used to confirm people'...
In a post-riot Toronto that the rich and privileged have fled, barricaded, and left to crumble, the inner city has had to rediscover old ways: farming, barter and herb lore. Now the monied need a harvest of bodies, so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman mu...
The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson “I’m born from countless journeys chained tight in the bellies of ships. Born from hope vibrant and hope destroyed. Born of bitter experience. Born of wishing for better.” It’s hard to describe The Salt Roads. It’s an interweaving of three disparate historical lege...
Nalo Hopkinson's The Salt Roads, now being re-released by Open Road Media, reads like a blend of novel and poem. Over the course of the book we meet three women who have been touched by the influence of Ezili. Mer is a slave in Haiti sometime before the revolution in 1789. Lemer is a dancer in 1840s...
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