Reception
Gary K. Wolfe praised Midnight Robber, characterizing it as "an inventive amalgam of rural folklore and advanced tehnology" and commending Hopkinson's distinctive narrative voice, which "reminds us that most of the world does not speak contemporary American middle-class vernacular, . . . raises questions about the highly conventionalized way that SF has always treated language, mak us question the hegemony of American culture in SF worlds."
Locus reviewer Faren Miller praised the novel, saying "Hopkinson take potentially downbeat material and compel the reader's attention with vigorous narrative, vividly eloquent prose, and forms of magic which may actually be SF."
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