Midnight Robber

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2000
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The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree. 

Pagination
330 pp.
Published Date

2000

Publisher
Warner Books
Place Published
New York
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ISBN Number
0-446-67560-1
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2000 Hopkinson, Nalo (b. 1960). Midnight Robber. New York: Warner Books. An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 99-115 with an editor’s note on 99-101, 247. CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and reproduced the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It then expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree. The female author was born in Jamaica and grew up in Guyana and Trinidad, spent many years in Canada, taught at the University of California, Riverside, and in 2021 became a Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

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CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

Author Note

The female author (b. 1960) was born in Jamaica and grew up in Guyana and Trinidad, spent many years in Canada, taught at the University of California, Riverside, and in 2021 became a Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.