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Lord brings Caribbean voice to science fiction

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"The Best of All Possible Worlds" by Karen Lord

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Science fiction gets a Caribbean perspective in Barbados-based Karen Lord's "The Best of All Possible Worlds." The ambitious novel follows the plight of the male survivors of a superior human civilization, reduced to lonely refugees by the annihilation of their home planet. Lord imagines their new planet as an expanded Caribbean, a complicated population subtly divided by physical traits, lineage and language.