Science Fiction and Forensics Science "collide" in St. Martin

Science Fiction and Forensics Science “collide” in St. Martin
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Monday, May 30, 2016

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GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 29, 2016)—Experts from the Forensics Department of the St. Maarten Police and popular Canadian science fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson may not know each other yet but their worlds are about to collide on the Friendly Island.

“Collide is probably a word to make it sound exciting but they definitely will be at the scene, around the same time, and with exciting presentations or discussion about their work at the University of St. Martin on Saturday, June 4,” said Shujah Reiph, coordinator of the 14th annual St. Martin Book Fair, June 2 – 4, 2016.

Book fair-goers and lovers of sci fi books and movies will get up-close insights into the mind of a big name in the very imaginative, other-worldly category of the fiction genre, said Jacqueline Sample of the book fair organization.

Hopkinson is the author of eight books of fiction, the editor/co-editor of four fiction anthologies, and a fiction co-editor for the Lightspeed special edition People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction, said Reiph.

Hopkinson, who was born in Jamaica and is a Canadian citizen, has received the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Andre Norton Award, and twice, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She’s now a Creative Writing professor at the University of California Riverside in the USA.

The author of the newly published Falling in Love With Hominids (short stories), has made noted novelist Junot Diaz write that, Nalo Hopkinson is “a powerful writer with an imagination that most of us will kill for.”

It is exactly on a subject like killing where Hopkinson’s world of great fantasy and the forensics world of real crime investigation could clash in sometimes dangerously dramatic, sometimes tragic and captivating ways, or depart with the differences of light years between them, said Sample.

Reiph thinks that it’s no exaggeration to say that many people in St. Martin are addicted to forensics crime shows on TV.

“Now when there’s a murder in St. Martin it’s sadly normal to see newspaper and online pictures of police and gendarmes conducting parts of their forensics investigation. But there are other types of crimes that forensics deal with,” said Reiph.

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