Report from Planet Midnight
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Publisher Description
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurous and aware fans, a reputation for intellect seasoned with humor, and a place of honor in the short list of SF writers who are tearing down the walls of category and transporting readers to previously unimagined planets and realms.
Never one to hold her tongue, Hopkinson takes on sexism and racism in publishing in “Report from Planet Midnight,” a historic and controversial presentation to her colleagues and fans.
Plus...
“Message in a Bottle,” a radical new twist on the time travel tale that demolishes the sentimental myth of childhood innocence; and “Shift,” a tempestuous erotic adventure in which Caliban gets the girl. Or does he?
And Featuring: Our Outspoken Interview, an intimate one-on-one that delivers a wealth of insight, outrage, irreverence, and top-secret Caribbean spells.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This too-brief collection for PM's Outspoken Authors series assembles four diverse works by Jamaican-born, Canada-dwelling author Hopkinson (The Chaos). The short stories "Shift" and "Message in a Bottle" are striking, especially the latter, in which an artist is granted the rare gift of knowing just how much his work will affect the people of the future. "Reluctant Ambassador from the Planet of Midnight" is a "somewhat performative" keynote speech for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, written in the context of the heated 2009 "RaceFail" discussion of race and related matters in the SF blogosphere. "Correcting the Balance" is a long interview with Hopkinson by series editor Terry Bisson. Insightful and engaging, the scant pages of this volume will leave the reader wishing for a more comprehensive collection that further showcases Hopkinson's broad talents, vital insights, and scathing frankness about sociocultural matters that too many genre writers refuse to tackle.
