All three are wonderful writers. Some of Delany's later work is somewhat difficult - he gets very post-modern - but the earlier works are fun and the later works are well worth it.
Butler's work is very accessible, but also very powerful and thought-provoking. If you like dytopias, The Parable of the Sower and its sequel, The Parable of the Talents, are good books to begin with.
Some of Nalo Hopkinson's work can be difficult for readers accustomed to mainstream novels because often she has her characters speaking (and narrative, where she's writing frst person) in Caribbean dialects. But if you commit to the reading, the story takes over very quickly. I think The Salt Roads is the best of her novels that I've read so far, although I haven't read her new novel, The New Moon's Arms.
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Date: 2008-02-06 06:30 pm (UTC)Butler's work is very accessible, but also very powerful and thought-provoking. If you like dytopias, The Parable of the Sower and its sequel, The Parable of the Talents, are good books to begin with.
Some of Nalo Hopkinson's work can be difficult for readers accustomed to mainstream novels because often she has her characters speaking (and narrative, where she's writing frst person) in Caribbean dialects. But if you commit to the reading, the story takes over very quickly. I think The Salt Roads is the best of her novels that I've read so far, although I haven't read her new novel, The New Moon's Arms.