Falling in Love with Hominids($15.95Value)

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An alluring new collection from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Midnight Robber Nalo Hopkinson ( Brown Girl in the Ring , The Salt Roads , Sister Mine ) is an internationally-beloved storyteller. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having "an imagination that most of us would kill for," her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are filled with striking imagery, unlikely beauty, and delightful strangeness. In this long-awaited collection, Hopkinson continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination. Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire, Hopkinson continues to create bold fiction that transcends boundaries and borders. Los Angeles Public Library: Best of 2015 Fiction Conversationalist : Best Books of 2015 Open Letters Monthly Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Locus 2015 Recommended Reading List: Best Collection Rock Your Reality Dope Female Authors to Get Into This Women’s History Month BookRiot Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of the Past 10 Years “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 “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 “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 , Bookseller’s Pick “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 “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 short fiction collection Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson introduced me to speculative fiction with Black queer characters.” ― Wear Your Voice “Daring, creative, and fantastically unique.” ― Read Diverse Books “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 “ Falling in Love with Hominids overflows with originality, beauty, and Hopkinson’s trademark depiction of human decency. . . .” ― Women's Review of Books “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 “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 , Best Books We Read in July “A wonderful treat for Nalo Hopkinson fans and a fantastic introduction for new readers.” ― New York Journal of Books “Yet another extraordinary collection of short stories that is well worth your time and rapt attention. The writing is beautiful, the message important, and its delivery is page-turning.” ― The Warbler “A magical collection of short stories which brings the reader completely different and new worlds to explore.” ― A Universe in Words “An entertaining and humane book that affirms why Junot Díaz refers to Hopkinson as “one of our most important writers.” ― Room Magazine “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 Americ