Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root
 Book Cover for Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root original name "Mermaid and Butterflies" | |
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson, editor |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Michel Ange Altidort |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science Fiction, Horror anthology |
| Publisher | Invisible Cities Press |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 318 pp |
| ISBN | 0-9679683-2-1 |
| OCLC | 44502440 |
| 813/.01089729 21 | |
| LC Class | PR9205.8 .W47 2000 |
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction is an anthology of speculative fiction by Caribbean authors edited by Nalo Hopkinson. It was nominated for the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. It is out-of-print.
Stories
’Membah
- Marcia Douglas, What the Periwinkle Remember [from Madam Fate]
- Wilson Harris, Yurokon
- Tobias S. Buckell, Spurn Babylon
Science
- 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
- Content List on Locus Magazine
- Book Description from Nalo Hopkinson's website
- 2001 World Fantasy Awards