Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I haven't finished a lot of books recently--I get stuck in the middle of things, or go read another online thing, mostly nonfiction. However, the kindle helps some, so:

I read Falling in Love with Hominids, by Nalo Hopkinson, last week. Here's what I jotted down at the time:

This is a short story collection, with an introduction, plus brief introductions to each story. Nalo notes that the stories were written over more than a decade, and aren't particularly connected. Some of the narrative voices are using various Caribbean English dialects; others are more standard US/Canadian. The collection starts with a zombie apocalypse story, in which fighting the zombies only buys the children time (and manages a more positive ending than that suggests). The other pieces include a good Bordertown story; I am displeased but not surprised that both she and the editors got pushback from white fans who said it "didn't feel like a Bordertown story" because it was mostly about non-white characters, both human and elven.

I bought a humble bundle of ebooks mostly to get this. (Yes, the title is a homage to Cordwainer Smith.)