Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinsonis a Jamaican speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novelsand short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling...
NationalityJamaican
ProfessionWriter
CountryJamaica
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When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.