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Bloodchild: And Other Stories
Bloodchild And Other Stories
Author: Octavia E. Butler
ISBN-13: 9781435293816
ISBN-10: 1435293819
Publication Date: 5/29/2008
Pages: 214
Edition: Reprint
Rating:
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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3 stars, based on 1 rating
Book Type: Library Binding
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reviewed Bloodchild: And Other Stories on + 35 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Octavia Butler is the first black woman short-story writer to have been published. I have not had the pleasure of reading her other works, but Blood Child is a book I'd recommend to anyone that likes a little twist to their "nighttime" stories!

She can not only take the unreal and make it seem perfectly normal, but can take the perfectly normal and make it jaw-dropping when you least expect it!
althea avatar reviewed Bloodchild: And Other Stories on + 774 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
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 Butler about each piece.

Everything in the book is superb, thought-provoking and fascinating.

Contents:

Stories: Bloodchild, The Evening and the Morning and the Night, Near of Kin, Speech Sounds, Crossover

Two Essays: Positive Obsession, Furor Scribendi

New Stories: Amnesty, The Book of Martha