Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
Encyclopedia
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction is an anthology of speculative fiction
by Caribbean
authors edited by Nalo Hopkinson
. Nominated for the 2001 World Fantasy Award
for Best Anthology. It is out-of-print.
Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella term encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as...
by Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
authors edited by Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson
Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.Hopkinson has...
. Nominated for the 2001 World Fantasy Award
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...
for Best Anthology. It is out-of-print.
’Membah
- Marcia Douglas, What the Periwinkle Remember [from Madam Fate]
- Wilson HarrisWilson HarrisSir Theodore Wilson Harris is a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but has since become a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging.Wilson Harris was born in New Amsterdam in what was then...
, Yurokon - Tobias S. BuckellTobias S. BuckellTobias S. Buckell is a Grenadian science fiction writer. His 2008 novel, Halo: The Cole Protocol, made the The New York Times Best Seller list. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio.-Biography:...
, Spurn Babylon
Science
- Roger McTair, Just a Lark (or the Crypt of Matthew Ashdown)
- Claude-Michel Prévost, Tears for Érsulie Frèda: Men without Shadow
Blood Thicker More Than Water
- H. Nigel Thomas, The Village Cock [“How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow?”]
- Ismith Khan, Shadows Move in the Britannia Bar
- Jamaica KincaidJamaica KincaidJamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda...
, My Mother
The Broad Dutty Water
- Olive Sebior, Mad Fish
- Opal Palmer AdisaOpal Palmer AdisaOpal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born writer, artist and teacher. Since 1993, Opal Palmer Adisa has taught literature and served as Chair of the Ethnic Studies/Cultural Diversity Program at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Dr. Adisa has two masters degrees from San Francisco...
, Widows’ Walk - Pamela MordecaiPamela MordecaiPamela Claire Mordecai is a Jamaican writer, teacher, and scholar and poet. She attended high school in Jamaica and college in the US, where she did a first degree in English...
, Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia
Crick Crack
- Lillian AllenLillian AllenLillian Allen is a Canadian dub poet, reggae musician, writer and Juno award winner.-Biography:Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica in 1951, she left that country in 1969, first moving to New York City, where she studied English at the City University of New York...
, In the Beginning - Geoffrey PhilpGeoffrey PhilpGeoffrey Philp is a Jamaican poet, novelist, and playwright. He is the author of the novel, Benjamin, My Son and five poetry collections: Exodus and Other Poems, hurricane center, Florida Bound, xango music, and Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas...
, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien - Robert AntoniRobert AntoniRobert Antoni is a West Indian writer who was awarded the 1999 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review for "My Grandmother's Tale of How Crab-o Lost His Head".- Background :...
, My Grandmother’s Tale of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus-Flytraps - Ian McDonald, Pot O’ Rice Horowitz’s House of Solace
Down Inside the Chute
- Nalo HopkinsonNalo HopkinsonNalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.Hopkinson has...
, Glass Bottle Trick - Antonio Benítez-RojoAntonio Benitez-RojoAntonio Benítez-Rojo was a Cuban novelist, essayist and short-story writer. He was widely regarded as the most significant Cuban author of his generation. His work has been translated into nine languages and collected in more than 50 anthologies.Born in Havana, he lived in Cuba with his mother...
, Buried Statues - Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Soma
Dream
- Kamau Brathwaite, My Funny Valentine
- marina ama omowale maxwell, Devil Beads
External links
- Content List on Locus Magazine
- Book Description from Nalo Hopkinson's website
- 2001 World Fantasy Awards