More relaxed, but no less moving or eloquent than Redemption, The Best of All Possible Worlds is not a tale of cultures clashing and wars breaking out. The situation might be “sci-fi familiar” but Lord’s focus isn’t. There will be surprises, but I can’t reliably predict what readers will find unusual.” I am a West Indian writer my purpose and my style are different in ways that aren’t always apparent. “ The Best of All Possible Worlds is sci-fi familiar, maybe too familiar, and genre readers will have expectations. “Most SF readers detect that Redemption in Indigo is influenced by another literary tradition,” said Lord, who was born in Barbados. Lord wrote The Best of All Worlds while struggling with a sequel to her award-winning debut, Redemption in Indigo, which was a re-imagining of a Senegalese folktale. It’s merely the beginning, as the men of a once powerful culture, decimated and humbled, must reach out to people they think of as inferior. But it’s not the end for the characters in Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds. A man emerges from the sea with news of death.
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