Karen Lord

Karen Lord is a Barbadian author of speculative fiction. She has won the Frank Collymore Literary Award, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. The Best of All Possible Worlds is a science fiction novel about the survivors of a destroyed planet who must find a new home and rebuild their civilisation — a thoughtful, hopeful story about diaspora, cultural preservation, and what it means to belong. Lord's fiction brings Caribbean perspectives to the science fiction genre. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers thoughtful, hopeful science fiction from a Caribbean perspective — stories about loss, survival, and the search for belonging.