Bloodchild and Other Stories

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Author(s)	Octavia E. Butler
Country	United States
Genre(s)	science fiction, horror
Publisher	Four Walls Eight Windows, Seven Stories Press
Publication date	Aug/Sep 1995
Media type	Print (hardcover, trade paperback)
Pages	144 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-888363-36-3 (1996 tp)

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.

Contents

1 Stories
2 Essays
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 Reviews

Stories

Bloodchild^[1] – won the 1984 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1985 Hugo Award for Best Novelette
The Evening and the Morning and the Night^[2]
Near of Kin
Speech Sounds^[3] – won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1984
Crossover

Essays

Positive Obsession
Furor Scribendi

References

^ included a. o. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (1984)
^ included a. o. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas (2000)
^ included a. o. in A Woman's Liberation edited by Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (2001)

External links

Bloodchild on Washington Post website
Bloodchild and Other Stories in Google Books
Bloodchild and Other Stories publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Furor Scribendi beginning (available in full after registration at Writers of the Future website)

Reviews

Novelist and short-story writer Octavia Butler defies categories by J. Douglas Allen Taylor, Metroactive Books (1996)

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Retro Hugos	"First Contact" by Murray Leinster (1946) "The Little Black Bag" by Cyril M. Kornbluth (1951) "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish (1954)

1955–1960	"The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1955) "Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster (1956) "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber (1958) "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak (1959)

1967–1980	"The Last Castle" by Jack Vance (1967) "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968) "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson (1969) "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson (1973) "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (1974) "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" by Harlan Ellison (1975) "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven (1976) "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977) "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge (1978) "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson (1979) "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin (1980)

1981–1990	"The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson (1981) "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny (1982) "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis (1983) "Blood Music" by Greg Bear (1984) "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler (1985) "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison (1986) "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny (1987) "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988) "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989) "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg (1990)

1991–2000	"The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick (1991) "Gold" by Isaac Asimov (1992) "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan (1993) "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994) "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995) "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly (1996) "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling (1997) "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson (1998) "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling (1999) "10¹⁶ to 1" by James Patrick Kelly (2000)

2001–present	"Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2001) "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2002) "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick (2003) "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick (2004) "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2005) "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (2006) "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald (2007) "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (2008) "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (2009) "The Island" by Peter Watts (2010) "The Emperor of Mars" by Allen Steele (2011)