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Midnight Robber was Hugo nominated, and rightly so. It's an incredible story of a young girl's coming of age on the planet Toussaint, peopled by Afro-Caribbean migrants from a distant Earth many years ago. The mix of folktales, science, and language made this a fascinating read for me, and I loved the way Hopkinson weaved these all together. There are some dark parts to this book, including (view spoiler), that some readers might want to steer away from.
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Midnight Robber is a Caribbean, carnival, multi-dimensional travel, space science fiction novel that deals with abuse, rape, marginalization, colonization, and othering. Seem like a lot? It really is.
A young Tan-Tan pretends she's the Robber Queen--a carnival rogue--on a planet colonized by Caribbean immigrants. But when her father the mayor gets in trouble with the law, both of them are forced into exile on a multidimensional ship that takes them to place very different than the one Tan-Tan kn ...more
A young Tan-Tan pretends she's the Robber Queen--a carnival rogue--on a planet colonized by Caribbean immigrants. But when her father the mayor gets in trouble with the law, both of them are forced into exile on a multidimensional ship that takes them to place very different than the one Tan-Tan kn ...more
It would take a favourite writer like Nalo Hopkinson to get me to read and actually enjoy science fiction. There is a first time for everything! It helps when the planet resembles Jamaica and everyone there speaks in creole!
Mar 26, 2024
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Utterly original and totally absorbing science fiction written with a Caribbean cultural approach.
I loved this and would defintely read more from Nalo Hopkinson.
I loved this and would defintely read more from Nalo Hopkinson.
4.5 stars
This book is damn near perfect and I loved every minute of it. RTC
This book is damn near perfect and I loved every minute of it. RTC
A decent book, but it had a couple of flaws and didn't quite work for me.
The first one was that I found it really difficult to believe that Tan-Tan would be so unable/unwilling to try new things during her second exile - even after she'd proved easy to adapt to her first one.
The second was that some of the time skips didn't make much sense - a couple of years would go by and it would feel like nothing changed - or only a month would go by and it would be written about as if it were years.
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The first one was that I found it really difficult to believe that Tan-Tan would be so unable/unwilling to try new things during her second exile - even after she'd proved easy to adapt to her first one.
The second was that some of the time skips didn't make much sense - a couple of years would go by and it would feel like nothing changed - or only a month would go by and it would be written about as if it were years.
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