Nalo Hopkinson Books in Order

In an abandoned inner-city Toronto, a young woman struggles to protect her child amid poverty and exploitation. When powerful outsiders prey on the city's residents, ancestral knowledge and ancient gods become central to her family's survival.

Young Tan-Tan accompanies her father into exile after he commits a crime on the Caribbean-inspired planet Toussaint. On New Half-Way Tree, creatures from folklore become real, and she must find a way to survive among outcasts.

Caribbean folklore and speculative invention meet in these short stories, including tales of shape-shifting vampires and werewolves alongside technological transformations. Hopkinson explores the unsettling possibilities beneath human appearances through encounters that merge familiar emotions with fantastical threats.

The goddess Ezili connects three women's lives across centuries: an enslaved healer in Haiti, a dancer in nineteenth-century Paris, and a prostitute in ancient Egypt. Their struggles expose different constraints on freedom, sexuality, and identity.

Following her father's death, Calamity discovers that lost objects mysteriously return as she enters menopause. Finding a young boy washed ashore on her Caribbean island brings new responsibilities and strains her relationship with her adult daughter.

Trainee historian and musician Veycosi hopes to secure scholarly recognition, but foreign ships threaten his island with a forced trade agreement. Disappearing children and an ancient army awakening from tar statues draw him into dangers beyond his ambitions.

This collection combines speculative stories, an interview, and Hopkinson's reflections on racism and sexism in science fiction. Its fiction includes a time-travel mystery and a reworking of The Tempest, alongside discussion of writing and representation.

Sixteen-year-old Scotch already struggles with her mixed heritage and mysterious changes to her skin when her brother vanishes inside a strange bubble. As Toronto undergoes impossible transformations, she searches for him while confronting her own identity.

Separated at birth, formerly conjoined twins Makeda and Abby have unequal inheritances from their human mother and demigod father. Makeda seeks independence from her magical family, but their father's disappearance forces the sisters to confront their difficult bond.

These speculative stories draw on Caribbean myth, ghosts and surreal transformations, including a reworked Tempest and chickens that breathe fire. Across unfamiliar worlds and altered everyday settings, Hopkinson examines human experiences through cultural traditions and unexpected forms of wonder.

Hopkinson's speculative stories visit waterlogged futures, alien remains and uneasy encounters with the dead. Characters including a woman with a cyborg pig and an artist using nanotechnology explore survival, identity and Black experience through imaginative transformations.