Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (Hardback)

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--<i>Brown Girl in the Ring</i> <i>Midnight Robber</i> <i>The Salt Roads</i> <i>The New Moon's Arms</i> <i>The Chaos</i> and <i>Sister Mine</i>--project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race sex and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to its readers and this desire is reflected in her award-winning anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. <p/>In twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021 <i>Conversations with </i><i>Nalo Hopkinson</i> reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She provides powerful insights on code-switching race Afrofuturism queer identities sexuality Caribbean folklore and postcolonial science fictions among other things. As a result the conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness of her mind and her influence as a writer.