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Central America is the southernmost , isthmian portion of the North American continent , which connects with South America on the southeast . Central America is bordered by Mexico to the north , Colombia to the southeast , the Caribbean Sea to the east , and the Pacific Ocean to the west . Central America consists of seven countries : Belize , Guatemala , El Salvador , Honduras , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and Panama . The combined population of Central America is between ___MASK76___ , ___MASK81___ , 000 ( ___MASK90___ estimate ) and 42 , 688 , 190 ( 2012 estimate ). Nalo Hopkinson ( born ___MASK26___ ) is a Jamaican speculative fiction writer and editor . She currently lives and teaches in Riverside , California . Her novels ( Brown Girl in the Ring , Midnight Robber , The Salt Roads , The New Moon ' s Arms ) and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language , and its traditions of oral and written storytelling . Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies ( Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root : Caribbean Fabulist Fiction and Mojo : Conjure Stories ) . She was the co - editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming : Postcolonial Visions of the Future , and with Geoff Ryman for Tesseracts 9 . Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke ' s novel Whylah Falls on the CBC ' s Canada Reads 2002 . She was the curator of Six Impossible Things , an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One . The supernatural ( Medieval Latin : " superntrlis ": " supra " " above " + " naturalis " " natural ", first used : ___MASK87___  ___MASK98___ AD ) includes all that cannot be explained by science or the laws of nature , including things characteristic of or relating to ghosts , gods , or other supernatural beings , or to things beyond nature . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately ___MASK37___ percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Salt Roads is a novel by Canadian - Jamaican writer Nalo Hopkinson . It has been categorized as historical fiction , speculative fiction , science fiction , and magical realism . The Caribbean ( or ) is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea , its islands ( some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean ) and the surrounding coasts . The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland , east of Central America , and north of South America . Mexico (, modern Nahuatl ), officially the United Mexican States , is a federal republic in the southern half of North America . It is bordered to the north by the United States ; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean ; to the southeast by Guatemala , Belize , and the Caribbean Sea ; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico . Covering almost two million square kilometers ( over ___MASK97___ , 000 sq mi ), Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world . With an estimated population of over ___MASK62___ million , it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish - speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America . Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city . Other metropolises include Guadalajara , Monterrey , Puebla , Toluca , Tijuana and León . Midnight Robber is a science fiction bildungsroman ( coming - of - age novel ) by Jamaican - Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson . Warner Aspect published the novel in ___MASK42___ . Riverside is a city in Riverside County , California , United States , located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area . Riverside is the county seat of the eponymous county and named for its location beside the Santa Ana River . It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County , and is located about east of Los Angeles . It is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area . Riverside is the 59th most populous city in the United States and 12th most populous city in California . As of the ___MASK69___ Census , Riverside had a population of ___MASK15___ , 871 . Nalo Hopkinson ( born ___MASK100___ ) is a Jamaican - born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor . She currently lives and teaches in Riverside , California . Her novels (" Brown Girl in the Ring ", " Midnight Robber ", " The Salt Roads ", " The New Moon ' s Arms ") and short stories such as those in her collection " Skin Folk " often draw on Caribbean history and language , and its traditions of oral and written storytelling . Speculative fiction is a broad umbrella genre denoting any narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements ; this encompasses the genres of science fiction , fantasy , horror , alternative history , magic realism , and superhero fiction , as well as combinations of the previous genres . It typically strays strongly from reality and so may feature fictional types of beings like mythical creatures and supernatural entities , technologies that do not exist in real life like time machines and interstellar spaceships , or magical or otherwise scientifically inexplicable elements . The term ' s popularity is sometimes attributed to Robert Heinlein , who referenced it in ___MASK57___ in an editorial essay , although there are prior mentions of speculative fiction , or its variant " speculative literature ".