Bloodchild and Other Stories

Bloodchild and Other Stories

"Bloodchild and Other Stories" is the only and rather brief collection of science fiction stories and essays by Octavia E. Butler. Each story features an afterword by Butler. "Bloodchild", the title story, won both Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

Stories

* Bloodchild included a. o. in "" edited by Gardner Dozois (1984)] – won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1985 and Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* The Evening and the Morning and the Night included a. o. in "" edited by Sheree Thomas (2000)]
* Near of Kin
* Speech Sounds included a. o. in "A Woman's Liberation" edited by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (2001)] – won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1984
* Crossover

Essays

* Positive Obsession
* Furor Scribendi

References

External links

* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/bloodchi.htm Bloodchild] on "Washington Post" website
* [http://books.google.cz/books?id=kXpHeqmws1gC "Bloodchild and Other Stories"] in Google Books
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* [http://wotfblog.galaxypress.com/2007/03/we-just-finished-our-first-month-plus.html Furor Scribendi] beginning (available in full after registration at Writers of the Future website)

Reviews

* [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/01.04.96/books-9601.html Novelist and short-story writer Octavia Butler defies categories] by J. Douglas Allen Taylor, Metroactive Books (1996)


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