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“I had encountered some of Nalo Hopkinson’s stories before starting this collection and admired them. So it’s with pleasure I can say this is another varied set with which she shows a talent for making strange and thought-provoking tales with concerns including Western and Caribbean cultures, gender, climate change and adaptation and resilience.”
—Too Many Fantasy Books

Praise for Nalo Hopkinson

“A major talent.” —Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Nalo Hopkinson has had a remarkable impact on popular fiction. Her work continues to question the very genres she adopts, transforming them from within through her fierce intelligence and her commitment to a radical vision that refuses easy consumption.” —Globe and Mail

“One of the best fantasy authors working today.” —io9

“An exciting new voice in our literature.” —Edmonton Journal

“Like Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler, [Hopkinson] forces us to consider how inequities of race, gender, class and power might be played out in a dystopian future.” —The News Magazine of Black America

“Hopkinson’s stories dazzle” —NPR Books

“The power of Hopkinson’s stories lies in their capacity to help us reimagine our own movement through the world and to wonderfully innovate new trajectories for speculative fiction as a whole.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Caribbean science fiction? Nalo Hopkinson is staking her claim as one of its most notable authors.” —Caribbean Travel and Life

“One of our most important writers.” —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Hopkinson’s prose is a distinct pleasure to read: richly sensual, with high-voltage erotic content and gorgeous details.” —SCIFI.com

Praise for the short story collection Falling in Love with Hominids

“A must read for fantasy and short story fans” —Portland Book Review

“Hopkinson’s stories stack up well against their source of inspiration, but her voice is clearly her own, charged with deep feeling and vast imagination.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“The stories all share a common thread of magic, which is often woven, whether subtly or blatantly, into the fabric of everyday reality, allowing characters to react to the strange or the impossible as it crosses into their world.” —Publishers Weekly

“Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson introduced me to speculative fiction with Black queer characters.” —Wear Your Voice

“Every reader will surely find something to love, as this collection is often hilariously funny, deeply tragic, intensely engaging, and strongly steeped with fantastic elements.” —Civilian Reader

“In this collection of luminous stories, Nalo Hopkinson writes with an observant intensity.” —World Literature Today

“Overflows with originality, beauty, and Hopkinson’s trademark depiction of human decency.” —Women’s Review of Books

“A wonderful treat for Nalo Hopkinson fans and a fantastic introduction for new readers.” —New York Journal of Books

“Nalo Hopkinson paints the places she knows in the way that Márquez embodies the soul of Central America, or the way Bradbury captures Illinois summers.” —Fiction Foresight

“A writer at the height of her powers.” —The Canadian Science Fiction Review

“Hopkinson resembles Le Guin. Go find this book and read it.” —File 770

• Prepublication endorsements and reviews from leading authors, review, and media outlets in the U.S. and Canada, and general publications for literary, fantasy, science fiction, Black, and LGBTQIA+ audiences
• Print and digital advance reader copies to be distributed and available upon request
• Author tour to include book launch events in U.S. and Canada; appearances at the World Science Fiction convention and SF in SF
• Online features to include Instagram tour, reviews, interviews, Reddit AMA, and social media campaign