Originally from Jamaica, Hopkinson doesn't shy back from having her characters speak Creole or to explicitly introduce black characters into stories where readers might not expect them due to strange genre expectations. Which Hopkinson brought in so much of her own background. Each story has a character at the core which Hopkinson explores with delicacy, which means that no matter how fantastical the story gets, it remains true.Īs a white, European woman I also really enjoyed the way in At the heart of Hopkinson's collection lie the hominids of her title, the Great Apes, the humans.

Whether it is having different narrators, switching between Creole and Standard English or unreliable narrators, each story in Falling in Love with Hominids is always refreshing.

Personally I a, a fan of authors who take a risk, who demand something of their reader as well. Quite often Sci-Fi authors are surprisingly lazy in how adventurous they try to be, not just with their stories but with their writing styles as well. Introduction as well, that Science Fiction and Fantasy are exactly the types of genres which can be used to explore the everyday through the extraordinary or out of the ordinary. Hopkinson works with Fantasy and Science Fiction. Falling in Love with Hominids is truly a magical collection of short stories which brings the reader completely different and new worlds to explore. What I found delightful about Falling in Love with Hominids as a whole was the way in which

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