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Brown Girl in the RIng / Nalo Hopkinson

Public ISBD Title : Brown Girl in the RIng Material Type: printed text Authors: Nalo Hopkinson, Author Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 1998 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-446-67433-1 General note: Paper back Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction, feminism, apocolypse Abstract: The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways-farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends. Brown Girl in the RIng [printed text] / Nalo Hopkinson, Author . - [S.l.] : Grand Central Publishing, 1998. ISBN : 978-0-446-67433-1 Paper back Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction, feminism, apocolypse Abstract: The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways-farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eternal powers, and the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. She must bargain with gods, and give birth to new legends.

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Barcode	Call number	Media type	Location	Section	Status
FIC HOP 1998	FIC HOP 1998	Livre/Book	QPIRG-McGill	Fiction (QM)	Available

Report From Planet Midnight / Nalo Hopkinson

Public ISBD Title : Report From Planet Midnight Material Type: printed text Authors: Nalo Hopkinson, Author Publisher: PM Press Publication Date: 2012 Series: Outspoken Authors ISBN (or other code): 978-1-604-86497-7 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, Racism, Sexism, Short stories Abstract: "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." Report From Planet Midnight [printed text] / Nalo Hopkinson, Author . - [S.l.] : PM Press, 2012. - (Outspoken Authors) . ISBN : 978-1-604-86497-7 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, Racism, Sexism, Short stories Abstract: "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."

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FIC HOP 2012 m1	FIC HOP 2012 m1	Livre/Book	QPIRG-McGill	Fiction (QM)	Available
FIC HOP 2012	FIC HOP 2012	Livre/Book	QPIRG-Concordia	Fiction - QC	Available

So Long Been Dreaming / Nalo Hopkinson

Public ISBD Title : So Long Been Dreaming : Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy Material Type: printed text Authors: Nalo Hopkinson, Editor ; Nisi Shawl (1955-), Author ; Andrea Hairston (1952-), Author ; Suzette Mayr (1967-), Author ; Larissa Lai (1967-), Author ; Eden Robinson, Author ; Nnedi Okorafor, Author ; Vandana Singh (1950-), Author ; Tamai Kobayashi, Author ; Sheree Thomas (1972-), Author ; Wayde Compton (1972-), Author ; Karin Lowachee (1973-), Author ; Greg van Eekhout, Author ; Celu Amberstone (1947-), Author ; Devorah Major (1952-), Author ; Carole McDonnell, Author ; Ven Begamudré (1956-), Author ; Opal Palmer Adisa (1954-), Author ; Maya Khankhoje, Author ; Tobias Buckell (1979-), Author ; Uppinder Mehan, Editor Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Publication Date: 2004 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-551-52158-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Fiction Race/Anti-Racism Abstract: So Long Been Dreaming is an anthology of stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour. The book depicts imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the "third world." In its five sections -- The Body, Future Earth, Allegory, Encounters With the Alien, and Re-Imagining the Past -- are stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centred in the worlds of the "developing" nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into. The wealth of postcolonial literature has included many who have written insightfully about their pasts and presents. With So Long Been Dreaming, they creatively address their futures.(from back cover) So Long Been Dreaming : Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy [printed text] / Nalo Hopkinson, Editor ; Nisi Shawl (1955-), Author ; Andrea Hairston (1952-), Author ; Suzette Mayr (1967-), Author ; Larissa Lai (1967-), Author ; Eden Robinson, Author ; Nnedi Okorafor, Author ; Vandana Singh (1950-), Author ; Tamai Kobayashi, Author ; Sheree Thomas (1972-), Author ; Wayde Compton (1972-), Author ; Karin Lowachee (1973-), Author ; Greg van Eekhout, Author ; Celu Amberstone (1947-), Author ; Devorah Major (1952-), Author ; Carole McDonnell, Author ; Ven Begamudré (1956-), Author ; Opal Palmer Adisa (1954-), Author ; Maya Khankhoje, Author ; Tobias Buckell (1979-), Author ; Uppinder Mehan, Editor . - [S.l.] : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004. ISBN : 978-1-551-52158-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Fiction Race/Anti-Racism Abstract: So Long Been Dreaming is an anthology of stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour. The book depicts imagined futures from the perspectives of writers associated with what might loosely be termed the "third world." In its five sections -- The Body, Future Earth, Allegory, Encounters With the Alien, and Re-Imagining the Past -- are stories that are bold, imaginative, edgy; stories that are centred in the worlds of the "developing" nations; stories that dare to dream what we might develop into. The wealth of postcolonial literature has included many who have written insightfully about their pasts and presents. With So Long Been Dreaming, they creatively address their futures.(from back cover)

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Barcode	Call number	Media type	Location	Section	Status
FIC HOP 2004	FIC HOP 2004	Livre/Book	QPIRG-McGill	Fiction (QM)	Due for return by 05/20/2016
CGA FIC 0022	CGA FIC 0022	Livre/Book	Centre for Gender Advocacy	Fiction	Available

The New Moon's Arms / Nalo Hopkinson

Public ISBD Title : The New Moon's Arms Material Type: printed text Authors: Nalo Hopkinson, Author Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 2007 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-446-57691-8 Languages : English (eng) Abstract: Calamity, originally christened Chastity, is confronting two of life's biggest dramas. First is the death of her father, a rigid, principled man who rejected a pregnant Calamity when she was sixteen years old. Contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home and still angry about the indignities of her past, Calamity tended the old man in his last years, only to finally become the orphan she'd always felt like. The second drama: she's starting menopause. And with this change of life comes the return of a special gift she has not felt since her childhood--she can find lost things. Now after a little tingling in the hands and a hot flash, objects suddenly appear out of nowhere. Then one morning a missing item washes up on the shore that is not her old toy truck or her hairbrush, but a bruised yet cheerful four-year-old boy, his ropy hair matted with shells. When Calamity decides to take the orphaned child into her care, she not only brings greater strain to her relationship with her now adult daughter, but creates new unexpected upheaval in her life. For fostering this child will force Calamity to confront all the memories and mysteries of her own childhood and the disappearance of her mother so many years before. The New Moon's Arms [printed text] / Nalo Hopkinson, Author . - [S.l.] : Grand Central Publishing, 2007. ISBN : 978-0-446-57691-8 Languages : English (eng) Abstract: Calamity, originally christened Chastity, is confronting two of life's biggest dramas. First is the death of her father, a rigid, principled man who rejected a pregnant Calamity when she was sixteen years old. Contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home and still angry about the indignities of her past, Calamity tended the old man in his last years, only to finally become the orphan she'd always felt like. The second drama: she's starting menopause. And with this change of life comes the return of a special gift she has not felt since her childhood--she can find lost things. Now after a little tingling in the hands and a hot flash, objects suddenly appear out of nowhere. Then one morning a missing item washes up on the shore that is not her old toy truck or her hairbrush, but a bruised yet cheerful four-year-old boy, his ropy hair matted with shells. When Calamity decides to take the orphaned child into her care, she not only brings greater strain to her relationship with her now adult daughter, but creates new unexpected upheaval in her life. For fostering this child will force Calamity to confront all the memories and mysteries of her own childhood and the disappearance of her mother so many years before.

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Barcode	Call number	Media type	Location	Section	Status
CGA FIC 0019	CGA FIC 0019	Livre/Book	Centre for Gender Advocacy	Fiction	Available