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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root

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Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
First edition
AuthorNalo Hopkinson, editor
Cover artistMichel Ange Altidort by "Mermaid and Butterflies"
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, horror
PublisherInvisible Cities Press
Publication date
2000
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages318 pp
ISBN0-9679683-2-1
OCLC44502440
813/.01089729 21
LC ClassPR9205.8 .W47 2000

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction is an anthology of speculative fiction by Caribbean authors, edited by Nalo Hopkinson and published by Invisible Cities Press in 2000. It was nominated for the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.[1] The book is out-of-print. Reviewing it in 2002, James Schellenberg wrote: "Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root is recommended to anyone interested in Caribbean culture. Hopkinson has done wonderful work at organizing and presenting the stories."[2]

Stories

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The stories are grouped in seven sections:

'Membah

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Science

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  • 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

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  • 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"

The Broad Dutty Water

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Crick Crack

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  • 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"

Down Inside the Chute

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Dream

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References

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  1. ^ "2001 World Fantasy Award Winners and Nominees", World Fantasy Convention.
  2. ^ James Schellenberg, "Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction" review, Challenging Destiny, 10 March 2002.
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