My 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 hasnโt mentioned such an important plot point.
Nalo HopkinsonI'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
Nalo HopkinsonWhen your elders are millennia-old demigods, youโd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
Nalo HopkinsonI don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.
Nalo HopkinsonWhen people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.
Nalo HopkinsonIโm going to check the worldโs best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldnโt even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
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 hasnโt mentioned such an important plot point.
Nalo Hopkinson