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Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild and Other Stories
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780783894027 (0783894023)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 175
Edition language: English
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Lora Hates Spam
Lora Hates Spam rated it
3.0 Bloodchild
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...
Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it
4.5 Bloodchild and other stories
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 ...
Shaykitteh's World of Books
Shaykitteh's World of Books rated it
4.0 Review: Bloodchild: And Other Stories
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. ...
Bibliosa
Bibliosa rated it
5.0 Blood Child and Other Stories Thoughts
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...
altheaann
altheaann rated it
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...
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