![]() The privileged and powerful abandoned the city, leaving families to fend for themselves. ![]() The story is set in downtown dystopian Toronto. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, a Locus Award for Best First Novel, and it won the year’s Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. ![]() RELATED: Afrofuturism Books That Explore the Past, Present, and Futureīrown Girl in the Ring marked Hopkinson as a force of nature when it was published in 1998. It’s one of many stories in this collection where Hopkinson questions what a “normal” body is, her speculative worlds belying the patriarchal, colonized continents of the Earth we inhabit.Ĭombining Caribbean and Anglo-English dialects, Hopkinson expands our notions of possibility through the words on the page. Widely anthologized, “Fisherman” offers a grounded yet hopeful trans narrative that gives K.C. is a trans man wrestling with his place in his communities, as well as his own skin. At night he plucks up the courage to become a client to a sex worker, like the other fishermen.Īs the narrative unfolds, readers understand that K.C. ![]() New Hopkinson readers should definitely start with Skin Folk, a collection of previously published and new speculative fiction.Ī standout short story in this collection is “Fisherman.” K.C., a young Black fisherman, spends his days hunting mutant fish. A short story collection is the perfect introduction to an author, if you want to witness her breadth of style. ![]()
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