I personally think both of her short story collections Skin Folk and Falling in Love with Hominids are the very best work she’s done, but her novels such as The Salt Roads and Sister Mine are also AMAZING and ranging from Afro-Caribbean mythological urban fantasy set in Toronto and magical historical tales of Black queer women in different eras and places in the world. Since her first novel in 1998, Brown Girl in the Ring-set in post-apocalyptic Toronto, Hopkinson has gone on to put out some of the best (speculative) fiction that I’ve ever read. Perhaps Nalo Hopkinson is Octavia Butler’s long lost twin, because she writes fiction just as wildly imaginative and, frankly, genius as Butler, but, happily, with more sex. By signing up you agree to our terms of use Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. Some people in this world, including the main characters, have the gift/curse of being able to move and control the forces beneath the earth’s surface, to either stop … or create disasters.
The idea of apocalypse hangs over them like a cloud at all times. In her two most recent books, The Fifth Seasonand The Obelisk Gate, Jemisin is at the height of her powers of world-building and plotting, as she weaves multiple stories set in “the Stillness,” where people live under threat of extinction via earthquakes, volcanoes, and other natural disasters. I almost hesitate to call her work fantasy because it is so different from any other fantasy I have read. If you are tired of conventional fantasy tropes, Jemisin is going to blow your mind as she creates truly new worlds full of strange mythologies, cultures, religions, creatures, and lands. To date she has three series to check out: the Inheritance trilogy, the Dreamblood series, and the Broken Earth series, the third novel of which, The Stone Sky, is due out this August.
Jemisin yet, where have you been? Since the publication of her debut novel The Hundred Thousand Kingdomsin 2010, Jemisin’s ground-breaking, unique fantasy novels have only been getting better. Honestly, if you’re a fan of Octavia Butler and you haven’t read N.K.
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