Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
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| Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root | |
 Book Cover for Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root original name "Mermaid and Butterflies" |
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| Author | Nalo Hopkinson, editor |
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| Cover artist | Michel Ange Altidort |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science Fiction, Horror anthology |
| Publisher | Invisible Cities Press |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 318 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-9679683-2-1 |
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.
Contents |
[edit] Stories
[edit] ’Membah
- Marcia Douglas, What the Periwinkle Remember [from Madam Fate]
- Wilson Harris, Yurokon
- Tobias S. Buckell, Spurn Babylon
[edit] Science
- Roger McTair, Just a Lark (or the Crypt of Matthew Ashdown)
- Claude-Michel Prévost, Tears for Érsulie Frèda: Men without Shadow
[edit] 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 Kincaid, My Mother
[edit] The Broad Dutty Water
- Olive Sebior, Mad Fish
- Opal Palmer Adisa, Widows’ Walk
- Pamela Mordecai, Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia
[edit] Crick Crack
- Lillian Allen, In the Beginning
- Geoffrey Philp, Uncle Obadiah and the Alien
- Robert Antoni, 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
[edit] Down Inside the Chute
- Nalo Hopkinson, Glass Bottle Trick
- Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Buried Statues
- Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Soma
[edit] Dream
- Kamau Brathwaite, My Funny Valentine
- marina ama omowale maxwell, Devil Beads
[edit] External Links
- Content List on Locus Magazine
- Book Description from Nalo Hopkinson's website
- 2001 World Fantasy Awards
