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Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) is an internationally beloved storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes.
[STARRED REVIEW] “A joyous celebration of Hopkinson’s abiding legacy as a titan of both speculative fiction and Caribbean literature.”
—Publishers Weekly
[STARRED REVIEW] “A commanding short story collection.”
—Foreword
In Hopkinson’s first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome.
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful.
Genre: Science Fiction
[STARRED REVIEW] “A joyous celebration of Hopkinson’s abiding legacy as a titan of both speculative fiction and Caribbean literature.”
—Publishers Weekly
[STARRED REVIEW] “A commanding short story collection.”
—Foreword
In Hopkinson’s first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome.
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful.
Genre: Science Fiction
Praise for this book
"A melange of stories that spins together roots, dreams, and powerful tales the way only Nalo can. It's easy to get lost in the verses and images that drip from the page. A must read." - Tobias S Buckell
"Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions is a treasure box, a mojo pot of stories to break your heart and mend it too. Nalo Hopkinson's fables, ghost tales, alien encounters, and automaton adventures are a sheer delight. Magic on the page. Hopkinson's language carries you to revelation and joy. Characters you've been lusting after do tricks with your mind. These dazzling stories will reacquaint you with your spirits!" - Andrea Hairston
"Each story in Jamaica Ginger surprises and delights. Nalo Hopkinson repeatedly draws on wild magic to examine human experiences so familiar that the tales feel like they're shaped from collective memories." - Emily Pohl-Weary
"Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions is a treasure box, a mojo pot of stories to break your heart and mend it too. Nalo Hopkinson's fables, ghost tales, alien encounters, and automaton adventures are a sheer delight. Magic on the page. Hopkinson's language carries you to revelation and joy. Characters you've been lusting after do tricks with your mind. These dazzling stories will reacquaint you with your spirits!" - Andrea Hairston
"Each story in Jamaica Ginger surprises and delights. Nalo Hopkinson repeatedly draws on wild magic to examine human experiences so familiar that the tales feel like they're shaped from collective memories." - Emily Pohl-Weary
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