Nalo Hopkinson “Falling In Love With Hominids” (Tachyon,
2015)
Here in Derby City, people are getting ready for fall. School is starting and people are acting like
Halloween is just around the corner. And
Nalo Hopkinson releases this volume of collected short stories. I’m glad that I had the opportunity to read
these stories in the midst of the summer, because that’s what they call out
for.
Some of the stories are explicitly set on Islands. But throughout all of them, there’s a sense
of an island breeze. Caribbean culture is
the backbone of the worlds that she creates.
Don’t get me wrong.
This isn’t some sort of Jimmy Buffet style mellow everythings gonna be
alright view of island life. There are
dark deeds and sometimes scary things in the shadows. And sometimes the things we need to fear are
other people.
This is my first opportunity to read Hopkinson’s fiction,
and I have to say that I’m a fan. It
seems to occupy a space that’s part SF, part fantasy. I’d recommend this to fans of Jeff
Vandermeer, for example. Extremely well
written pieces that seem to slide around and hit the sweet spot.
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