How do I know anything? How is it that my arms stretched out in front of me are so pale? How to I even know that they should be brown like riverbank mud, as they were when I was many goddesses with many worshippers, ruling in lands on the other side of a great, salty ocean? I used to be many, but now we are one, all squeezed together, many necks in one coffle.
Nalo HopkinsonMy friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.
Nalo HopkinsonSo there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are.
(interview)
Tags: writing storytelling
She calls herself Fleet ‘cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?”
“British Colombia?”
He looked sad. “No, Before Crack.
Tags: bc
Suck all the juice this life will give!
Nalo HopkinsonTags: life-juice
You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.
Nalo HopkinsonTags: time-lines
In the back of my mind’s eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on.
Nalo HopkinsonTags: shine
Why? Because I played god with you? Baby girl, that’s what I do. And not lightly, either.” He thought about that for a second. “Well, yes, sometimes lightly. You know what they say about all work and no play.
Nalo HopkinsonTags: lightly-play-god
I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
Nalo HopkinsonTags: urban-legends
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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