Bloodchild and Other Stories
Octavia Butler · 1995
Butler's speculative fiction engages race, gender, and power with a directness that genre fiction rarely achieves. "Bloodchild," a story about pregnancy, autonomy, and alien colonization, is among the most discussed stories in contemporary American fiction.
The case against
Butler admitted in these very pages that she hated writing short stories, and the collection proves her honest. A handful of stories padded with two essays makes a thin book; the title piece towers over everything else, and the afterword trailing each story explains its intentions, flattening ambiguities the fiction had earned.
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