![]() ![]() ![]() It is obvious that she has changed the rules of the game. Hopkinson’s Caribbean-flavoured fantasies – with their sing-song accents and ironic phrasings, their futuristic posturings and historical intent, attract and startle sci-fi readers. Over the phone from Vancouver, where she is currently a writer-in-residence at the University of British Columbia, one can hear in her voice the dancing rhythms of her various island homes – and the source for the arresting music of her prose. Her second book, Midnight Robber, published in 2000, earned Hugo and Nebula nominations and was named a New York Times notable book of the year. She is the author of three stunningly original novels that have earned her a following of avid fans – and critical acclaim. Nalo Hopkinson was born in Jamaica in 1960 and lived in several Caribbean countries and the United States before settling in Canada in 1975. ![]() “Did Delany give you permission to write?” ![]() “So what was it that made you cry?” I asked. Also, a man who in the Caribbean we would call mad. “Delany’s protagonist is a character who represents everything the mainstream world tells you is bad,” she told me recently. She had read Delany’s novel Dhalgren and had been mightily impressed. This was back in the early 1990s, when Hopkinson first considered embarking upon a writing career. When Nalo Hopkinson, Canada’s popular fantasy fiction writer, first learned that her favourite sci-fi novelist, Samuel R. ![]()
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