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erikawynn's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Gun violence
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Incest, Rape, Torture, and Death of parent
tasha_rose's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.25
Graphic: Torture and Murder
Moderate: Physical abuse
Minor: Rape
queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
5 ⭐ CW: Body horror, parasitic aliens, descriptions of blood and gore, self harm, suicide, abusive mental institutions, abuse/neglect, incest, illness, murder, death of a parent, miscarriage mention, still birth mention, street harassment, rape
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler is a collection of fiction and science fiction short stories and two essays. As some of you know, Butler is my favorite author, and I am working on collecting all her works.
Butler has such a unique and poignant way of writing aliens. I loved the aliens in Bloodchild for how disturbing they were while also being integrated with human society. Butler always situates humans as the one being taken over and being the lesser beings. This particular story reminded me of her Xenogenesis series.
Speech Sounds was a story about an illness that impairs people in different ways, including destroying the ability of language, spoken and written. It was about finding different ways of communicating. Similarly, Amnesty explore alternate ways of communicating with the plan-like aliens that have come to Earth.
I even enjoyed the two essays included, especially the second essay with tips on writing. This is definitely a collection I will be rereading at some point. I just love absorbing all of Butler's ideas and concepts. I will never stop shouting about Butler's work!
Have you seen that one of Butler's works is going to be a tv show?! You know I'm hyped for it!
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler is a collection of fiction and science fiction short stories and two essays. As some of you know, Butler is my favorite author, and I am working on collecting all her works.
Butler has such a unique and poignant way of writing aliens. I loved the aliens in Bloodchild for how disturbing they were while also being integrated with human society. Butler always situates humans as the one being taken over and being the lesser beings. This particular story reminded me of her Xenogenesis series.
Speech Sounds was a story about an illness that impairs people in different ways, including destroying the ability of language, spoken and written. It was about finding different ways of communicating. Similarly, Amnesty explore alternate ways of communicating with the plan-like aliens that have come to Earth.
I even enjoyed the two essays included, especially the second essay with tips on writing. This is definitely a collection I will be rereading at some point. I just love absorbing all of Butler's ideas and concepts. I will never stop shouting about Butler's work!
Have you seen that one of Butler's works is going to be a tv show?! You know I'm hyped for it!
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Gore, Incest, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Child death and Miscarriage
areadingstan's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Another amazing read from Octavia E Butler’s collection, this is a book of short stories she wrote. She says in her foreword that she is a novelist not a writer of short stories, but I was very impressed with the contents and the range of stories she told.
This was my first encounter with Butler’s creation of alien beings and their interactions with humans which I found really interesting and imaginative. There were also some more human-based stories which still placed Butler in the sci-fi category but as always she told stories of humanity, power and survival.
This was my first encounter with Butler’s creation of alien beings and their interactions with humans which I found really interesting and imaginative. There were also some more human-based stories which still placed Butler in the sci-fi category but as always she told stories of humanity, power and survival.
Moderate: Death, Incest, Miscarriage, and Rape
juliana_reads's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Minor: Rape
therefugeofbooks's review against another edition
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Gun violence, and Violence
Minor: Confinement, Rape, Torture, Violence, and Kidnapping
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