On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Nalo Hopkinson wrote:
> Anybody going to leap in on Joel's question about Sarah Canary? Joel,
> I've heard it called a first contact story. Which makes it possible to
> see her dress in a whole new light.
>
> -nalo
>
There's been a lot of argument over Sarah Canary. It's been variously
pigeon-holed as SF as fantasy as horror as magic-realism and as very
strange realistic fiction by various reviewers and critics. I read it as
science fiction myself, keying in on the dress that can't be unbuttoned and
apparently doesn't come off. I think that it's fair to say, however, that
Fowler intentionally fails to give enough clues in the text itself to allow
the reader to judge with any certainty.
A year or so after I read the book however, I heard Fowler say, at a WisCon I
think, that when she was writing the book she saw Sarah as an alien and
the book as SF.
Mike Levy
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