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Octavia E.Butler

Bloodchild

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Six extraordinary stories from the author of Kindred, a master of modern science fiction—including a Hugo and Nebula award–winning novella.
Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Bloodchild,” winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. “Bloodchild” is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it is not. Also included is the Hugo Award–winning “Speech Sounds,” about a near future in which humans must adapt after an apocalyptic event robs them of their ability to speak. “The Evening and the Morning and the Night,” another esteemed title in this collection, is a Nebula Award finalist. In these pages, Butler shows us life on Earth and amongst the stars, telling her tales with characteristic imagination and clarity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate.
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214 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted12 days ago
    Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? Or was that just the most sacrilegious thought she’d had so far?
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted12 days ago
    “Where is this?” she asked, not really wanting to know, not wanting to be dead when she was only forty-three. “Where am I?”

    “Here with me,” God said.

    “Really here?” she asked. “Not at home in bed dreaming? Not locked up in a mental institution? Not … not lying dead in a morgue?”

    “Here,” God said softly. “With me.”
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted16 days ago
    What good is any form of literature to Black people?

    What good is science fiction’s thinking about the present, the future, and the past? What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing? What good is its examination of the possible effects of science and technology, or social organization and political direction? At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what “everyone” is saying, doing, thinking—whoever “everyone” happens to be this year.

    And what good is all this to Black people?

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