by Octavia E. Butler
by Octavia Butler A dark science fiction story that begins a series. It gets a little squirmy but an interesting study in choices and symbiotic relationships with an alien species. The names suffered from the overly unusual aspects that some readers complain about in Fantasy novels, but this remin...
This is the first of Butler's work that I've read, or listened to in this case. The narrator is Janina Edwards. I listened to it on the Prime Channel "Worlds Away: Sci-Fi Classics" and am so glad I saw it there. I decided to make this my Task 22 for Read Harder 2017, Read a collection of stories by ...
After reading a portion of "Bloodchild" in a Hugo Award "snippet" book earlier this year, I picked up Octavia E. Butler's Bloodchild: And Other Stories. For an author who claimed to hate writing short stories, her talent at sharing glimpses into a possible future shine through in this collection. ...
Absolutely amazing!! I have no idea how I am just coming across Octavia E. Butler. Everything in Blood Child and other Stories is pure gold. I was continuously blown away by this short story collection which is Sci-Fi at its best. From aliens and plagues, Blood Child and other Stories manages to cap...
I think that everything Butler ever wrote deserves 5 stars.This book is much too short (as was Butler's time on this earth). It includes five previously published stories, an autobiographical essay, an essay on writing, and two new-to-this book stories.As well, it includes brief 'afterwords' by Butl...
Edgy, taut prose from one of my favorite Sci Fi writers. Butler says she hates writing short stories, but this collection shows that she's mastered it. Five stories, two essays, each with an afterword. Two of the stories won Hugos, and one also won the Nebula. My favorite of the stories won neither....
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