Los Angeles Public Library Best of 2015 Fiction
The Conversationalist: Best Books of 2015
Open Letters Monthly, Top 2015 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Read
Locus 2015 Recommended Reading List: Best Collection

“Hopkinson's stories dazzle.”
—NPR

“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. Hopkinson also draws frequently on her Caribbean upbringing and heritage, and her characters’ voices are distinct and authentic, both in their speech patterns and in their ways of looking at their surroundings. Hopkinson’s fans will be delighted by these examples of her wide-ranging imagination.”
—Publishers Weekly

“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

“There is something for everyone in this collection. Hopkinson manages to make a reader’s skin crawl in one story and smile in the next. It’s a mixture that keeps you reading just to see what she will come up with next. A great collection from a highly imaginative and insightful mind, Falling in Love with Hominids is a must read for fantasy and short story fans”
—Portland Book Review

“Falling in Love with Hominids overflows with originality, beauty, and Hopkinson’s trademark depiction of human decency. . . .”
—Women's Review of Books

A Barnes and Noble Bookseller’s Pick for August 2015
“The award-winning author of Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in the Ring returns with a collection of fantastical short fiction, assembling a decade’s worth of stories of magic and the supernatural intersecting with everyday life.”
—Barnes and Noble

“[U]nique and wonderful and disturbing. . . . Falling in Love with Hominids is at its heart a story of hope.”
—Books Without Any Pictures

A Book Riot Best Book We Read in July
“Every story feels like a perfectly formed separate entity, but pulling them together is the effortless blending of the fantastic and the mundane.”
—Book Riot

“Falling in Love with Hominids is a wonderful treat for Nalo Hopkinson fans and a fantastic introduction for new readers.”
—New York Journal of Books

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

“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

“Hopkinson does some beautiful things with the art of writing, her imagination is without bounds, and she challenges both readers and writers to go beyond what we see as the status quo. The book is filled with characters of colour, with LGBT characters, with characters who, one way or the other, are memorable and real and get to take part in some amazing stories.”
—Bibliotropic

“I can’t wait to read more of [Hopkinson’s] work in the future because I loved the speculative worlds in this short story collection.”
—Paper Wanderer

“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

“...Falling in Love with Hominids [which] is a pleasure from beginning to end.” —Worlds Without End

“This is an outstanding collection that really gives insight into [Hopkinson’s storytelling, the breadth and insight with which she writes.”
—The Conversationalist

“...this is a fantastic collection that I encourage lovers of fantasy and science fiction to pick up.”
—The Illustrated Page

“After I finished this book, I just wanted to hug it to my chest and sigh contentedly.... If you have any interest at all in fantastical or magical realist short stories, if you like sharp humor or flawed and compelling characters, definitely pick this one up. It's one of my favourite reads this year.”
—Paper Blog

“Falling in Love with Hominids reveals a writer at the height of her powers.”
—The Canadian Science Fiction Review

“a re-invigoration at the sense of wonder about human experience.”
—Speculating Canada

“All the stories display the various and eclectic writing skill Hopkinson contains in such ample amounts. The writing, too, is terrific.”
—The Book Wars

Praise for Nalo Hopkinson

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

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

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

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

“...like Samuel R. Delaney 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 prose is a distinct pleasure to read: richly sensual, with high-voltage erotic content and gorgeous details.”
—SCIFI.com

For Brown Girl in the Ring

“Nalo Hopkinson’s first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, is simply triumphant.”
—Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina

“Hopkinson lives up to her advance billing.”
—New York Times Book Review

“[Hopkinson] has created a vivid world of urban decay and startling, dangerous magic, where the human heart is both a physical and metaphorical key.”
—Publishers Weekly

· Author tour in U.S. and Canada

· Advertising in national print and online

· Promotion at major trade and genre conventions

· Features and reviews targeting literary, genre, and Carribean-themed blogs including Washington Post, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and the Caribbean Review of Books.