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Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson Books

Fiction writer

Nalo Hopkinson, born on December 20, 1960, is a renowned science fiction author known for her unique cultural background and profound thematic explorations. Her works blend Caribbean and African cultural elements, addressing issues of race, gender, and social justice.

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“Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.”

Acceptance Prejudice

Book:Sister Mine

Source: Sister Mine

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”

Death Loss Dying Death And Love Death And Humor

Book:Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring

“Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back... The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time...”

Race Descriptive Brown Eyes Black Hair Black Skin Afro Hair Patois

Book:Midnight Robber

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“She calls herself Fleet ‘cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?” “British Colombia?” He looked sad. “No, Before Crack.”

Book:Sister Mine

Source: Sister Mine

“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.”

Way Enough Stories Language Style Genre Engagement

Author:Nalo Hopkinson

“I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.”

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“I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.”

People Wells Mean Different Community Challenges Fiction Information Approach Science Fiction Narrative Colour Hub Different Approach

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“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.”

People Humans Said Important War White Race Fiction Wonder Happened My Friends Majority Science Fiction Human Race Plot

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“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

Hands Beats Perfection Ingenuity

Book:Sister Mine

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“I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.”

World Source Type Internet Checks Legends Urban Threshold Urban Legends

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“When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.”

Elders Demigods

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“I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.”

Trying Mind Pay Politician Mets Convince Sugar Salt

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“Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.”

Children Different Animal Groups Packs

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“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.”

“When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.”

People Facts Asks Literature Fiction Fantasy Environment Science Fiction Ask Me Users Our Environment Science Fiction And Fantasy

Author:Nalo Hopkinson

About the Author

Born: December 20, 1960
Known for: Fiction writer
Quotes: 15

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