Review copies of World Fantasy, John W. Campbell, Locus, Sunburst, Prix Aurora, and Gaylactic Spectrum award winner and Damon Knight Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson’s new collection JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS are now available via EDELWEISS and NETGALLEY.

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

. . . 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

JAMAICA GINGER AND OTHER CONCOCTIONS

by
Nalo Hopkinson

ISBN: 978-1-61696-426-9 (print); 978-1-61696-427-6 (digital)

Published: October 29. 2024

Available Format(s): trade paperback, ebook

Caribbean-Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, The Salt Roads, Falling in Love with Hominids) is an internationally renowned storyteller. This long-awaited new collection of her deeply imaginative short fiction offers striking journeys to far-flung futures and fantastical landscapes. Hopkinson is at the peak of her powers, moving effortlessly between art, folklore, science, and magic.

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. In her first 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 lifeform; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome.