Bloodchild and other stories 1995
By Octavia E. Butler, Janina Edwards, consonni, Arrate Hidalgo, Nadia Barkate
- American Science fiction, Fiction, Science fiction, American, Women
Six remarkable stories from a master of modern science fiction. 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. In this audiobook, Butler shows us life on Earth and amongst the stars, telling her tales with characteristic imagination and clarity.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
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- gravecomic
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- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Seven Stories Press, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Portuguese, und, English
- ISBN
- 9781568580555
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An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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