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Hopkinson, Nalo, and Uppinder Mehan, ed. - So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and F
As the subtitle notes, this is a book of postcolonial SF/F, more leaning toward the SF side of the spectrum.
I am a really bad person to write about this book, as I generally suck at reading short stories that focus more on the conceptual than the emotional. I found most of the stories that I "got" were the ones I wanted to argue with ("Native Aliens" and "Lingua Franca" in particular), and the ones with the neatest concepts were the ones I didn't really "get" (a lot). I, uh, largely feel like I fail at reading comprehension.
On the other hand, it was really cool just to have an anthology centered around this particular topic, given that it's one that is always lurking there, particularly in SF, and one not usually addressed from the POV of the colonized (or so says Hopkinson in her foreward, and from what I've seen from the little SF I've read). And, as a double plus bonus, I have another batch of authors to look for!
Some of them I've known: I was disappointed that the Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu story was one that was actually turned into a chapter in Shadow Speaker and was probably overly giggly over the fact that Larissa Lai had written Bladerunner fan fic, but I'll be looking for things from the other writers.
So... YMMV, especially if you are better at parsing short stories than me (and I think it would be difficult to be worse at parsing them than me).
I am a really bad person to write about this book, as I generally suck at reading short stories that focus more on the conceptual than the emotional. I found most of the stories that I "got" were the ones I wanted to argue with ("Native Aliens" and "Lingua Franca" in particular), and the ones with the neatest concepts were the ones I didn't really "get" (a lot). I, uh, largely feel like I fail at reading comprehension.
On the other hand, it was really cool just to have an anthology centered around this particular topic, given that it's one that is always lurking there, particularly in SF, and one not usually addressed from the POV of the colonized (or so says Hopkinson in her foreward, and from what I've seen from the little SF I've read). And, as a double plus bonus, I have another batch of authors to look for!
Some of them I've known: I was disappointed that the Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu story was one that was actually turned into a chapter in Shadow Speaker and was probably overly giggly over the fact that Larissa Lai had written Bladerunner fan fic, but I'll be looking for things from the other writers.
So... YMMV, especially if you are better at parsing short stories than me (and I think it would be difficult to be worse at parsing them than me).