Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root

Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root

Infobox Book |
name = Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
title_orig =
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image_caption = Book Cover for "Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root" original name "Mermaid and Butterflies"
author = Nalo Hopkinson, editor
illustrator =
cover_artist = Michel Ange Altidort
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science Fiction, Horror anthology
publisher = Invisible Cities Press
pub_date = 2000
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print (paperback)
pages = 318 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-9679683-2-1
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"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.

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’Membah

* Marcia Douglas, "What the Periwinkle Remember [from Madam Fate] "
* Wilson Harris, "Yurokon"
* Tobias S. Buckell, "Spurn Babylon"

cience

* 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

* 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

* Olive Sebior, "Mad Fish"
* Opal Palmer Adisa, "Widows’ Walk"
* Pamela Mordecai, "Once on the Shores of the Stream Senegambia"

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"

Down Inside the Chute

* Nalo Hopkinson, "Glass Bottle Trick"
* Antonio Benítez-Rojo, "Buried Statues"
* Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, "Soma"

Dream

* Kamau Brathwaite, "My Funny Valentine"
* marina ama omowale maxwell, "Devil Beads"

External links

* [http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr2000/t19.htm Content List] on Locus Magazine
* [http://nalohopkinson.com/writing/fiction/books/whispers Book Description] from Nalo Hopkinson's website
* [http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/2001.html 2001 World Fantasy Awards]


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