World Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling, by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal).
Hopkinson is a professor of creative writing.
Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, and the Andre Norton Award.
Her writing has received the John W.
She has published numerous novels and short Stories and occasionally edits anthologies. --Science Fiction Chronicle Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian whose taproots extend to Trinidad and Guyana.
Everything is possible in her imagination. and perhaps those of the seven deadly virtues. . .
She displays the complexities of the seven deadly sins . --Publishers Weekly This 15-story collection is a marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson\'s talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean.
Though marketed as science fiction, this collection should hand-sell to fans of multicultural fiction. . . .
Her descriptions of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ring true, the result of her strong evocation of place and her ear for dialect. --The Dallas Morning News Caribbean folklore informs many of the 15 stories, ranging from fabulist to mainstream, in this literary first short-fiction collection from Nebula and Hugo awards-nominee Hopkinson. --The Washington Post Book World An important new writer.
Hopkinson\'s prose is vivid and immediate.
Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.
Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Hopkinson\'s unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for Stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W.
In The Glass Bottle Trick, the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband\'s superstitions--to horrifying consequences.
In A Habit of Waste, a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she\'s shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus.
In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like Precious, in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing.
World Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling, by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal)
