The Caliban story flips the narrative and changes how we see not just Caliban, but Ariel, as well as their mother. There’s folklore and storytelling traditions here that are a new experience, and take me places I haven’t been. What sets this collection apart, aside from the fact that Hopkinson is just a really excellent writer, is that she writes from her own Afro-Caribbean heritage, giving us stories that are new, and bringing an entirely different perspective to stories grounded in more familiar material. There’s a reworking of the story of Caliban, and a new Bordertown story. Along with the horror, there’s dark fantasy, lighter, happier fantasy, and even a couple of stories that can fairly be called science fiction.
This is a wonderful collection of short stories, and Nalo Hopkinson kept me reading stories that were just straight up horror that I would ordinarily just skip right over.
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