Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:09:00 -0800
Subject: Interview with Nalo Hopkinson


The January 1999 issue of Locus ("The Newspaper of the Science Fiction
Field") for a featured interview with Nalo Hopkinson, the Jamaican-Canadian
author of _Brown Girl in the Ring_. She talks about discovering SF in the
Kingston library as a young girl, and discusses the relationship of people
of color to SF and SF and colonialism very intelligently. If you have
stereotyped ideas of SF, this issue will blow your mind: the other featured
interview is with lesbian novelist Melissa Scott, and there are reports on
SF in Spain, Portugal, France, and Israel, where a group has chosen the
traditional site of Armageddon for its millennial convention--sounds
dangerous to me!

Locus is available in some libraries and many SF bookstores. Their e-mail
address is Locus-AT-locusmag.com. The cover price is $4.95.

Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians-AT-wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians




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