Tag: Nalo Hopkinson

July 7, 2015

Quote – Life Huants Ghosts 

“Life haunts us, us ghosts. It hovers just out of reach, taunting.” -Nalo Hopkinson, Old Habits (in Falling in Love with Hominids: Tacyon Publications, Forthcoming 2015)

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June 16, 2015

Quote – SF to Confirm People’s Complacency

“I see the ways in which science fiction is too often used to confirm people’s complacency, to reassure them that it’s okay for them not to act, because they are not the lone superhero who will fix the world’s ills” -Nalo Hopkinson – Forward to Falling in Love With Hominids

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March 19, 2015

You Are What You Eat

A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s “Slow Cold Chick” in Northern Frights 5 (Mosaic Press, 1999) By Derek Newman-Stille We are shaped by what we eat, by what we consume and Nalo Hopkinson’s “Slow Cold Chick” is an examination of the relationship between food, identity, and selfhood. Food is transformative. When Blaise finds rotting eggs and rotting hot sauce in her...

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September 30, 2014

Mojo Disabled

A review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Sister Mine (Grand Central Publishing, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille There is a beauty in complexity, an ethereal quality to the display of Otherness and the richness of diversity. Sister Mine evokes the complexity of reality, the beatuty and power evoked by the richness of the human experience. Nalo Hopkinson’s characters are diverse in cultural background,...

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October 17, 2013

Quote – Part Spirit, Part Flesh

“She felt both light and heavy, part spirit, part flesh.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Brown Girl in the Ring. (Grand Central Publishing, New York, 1998)  

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June 14, 2013

Voudoun Visions of Toronto

A Review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in The Ring (Grand Central Publishing, 1998) By Derek Newman-Stille In Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson blends urban fantasy and near-future science fiction together in a Toronto environment. She creates a Toronto that has been cut off from the rest of Canada, ghettoised and locked off from the rest of the...

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June 1, 2013

Abstract – Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl In The Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place

A few readers have expressed some interest in my academic work researching Canadian Speculative Fiction. I have sent out versions of my abstracts for upcoming conferences to people directly, but I thought it may be worthwhile for me to post them on Speculating Canada so that people can see them. For those of you who are not from academic backgrounds,...

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October 21, 2012

Quote – Canadian Tropes – Privileging Community Over Individual Heroics

“By now, many of us could recite the list of tropes that we’ve decided make us us: stories that privilege the community over individual heroics; stories about open space(s), alienation, isolation; about the rare and precious coming together of isolated bodies to comfort each other in the dark and cold before separating once more…” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in...

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September 27, 2012

Quote – Humour Can Humanize

“Humour can humanize like nothing else, except perhaps death.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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August 5, 2012

Quote – Canadian Science Fiction is varied

“By now, it should be no secret that there are such things as Canadian science fiction writers; that there is a Canadian science fiction. And by now, we are perhaps beginning to realise that it’s not monolithic, but as varied as the writers who create it.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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