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doctorw0rm's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Medical trauma, Body horror, Chronic illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Incest, and Gun violence
Minor: Drug use
allymute's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Violence and Body horror
Minor: Incest
mint7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Incest
dpmpgh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.75
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Incest
emissaryorca's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Moderate: Self harm and Incest
suchsweetsorrow89's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Suicide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Colonisation and Incest
koberreads's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
I am glad she regarding quite well in the science fiction community
Bloodchild and other stories by Octavia Butler - Review
- Bloodchild - Horrified me. And stephen King or any other thirller writer has never had.
- Evening and morning and night - A world with a certain kind of extreme destructive disease alienates you
- Near of Kin - Taboo. If you like some of the familiar plot of game of thrones. Here it is. And I am not talking about Dragons and knights and shit.
- Speech sounds - Post apocalyptic - Soviet bomb or war virus made everyone either dead or mentally impaired to the point of not being able to speak or read or write.
- Crossover - a semi autobioc of the author is in her 5 year life at a day job at the factory (She needs the day job to sustain her daily expenses until she is able to sell her writng and quit her day job.)
- Positive Obession - Her birth as a writer. She hates the title of Birth of writer but for me Positive obsession is enough
- Furor Scribendi - Some advice on writing
- Amnesty - (From Google: an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses."an amnesty for political prisoners") - The aliens she creates are as unique as Ted Chiang’s. And I never though political things could be so weaved well in Science fiction about aliens. And also Noah should have began with the short history of strangers/community human wars to quiet down the disbelieving, war hungry applicants.
- Book of Martha - I like stories about God or meeting God. And I dont give a damn if the author belives in God or not. As long as he writes it well and provokes thoughts regarding the question of God, Philisophy (or in other words, a love for wisdom or the insights regarding the best way to live. This is Octavia's Utopia Stories.
Graphic: Incest, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Physical abuse, Sexual content, War, and Emotional abuse
sarahnh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Incest, Pregnancy, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Rape, Self harm, and Suicide
sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
My favorite stories in the book are The Evening and The Morning and The Night, Speech Sounds, Amnesty, and The Book of Martha. Although the other stories aren't my favorite, I still think they were very good.
Overall I give this book a 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Graphic: Suicide, Terminal illness, Incest, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, and Sexual violence
alspacedout's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Least Favorites: Crossover by a good margin, can't remember what happened in it for the life of me, even after rereading the afterword to try to spark my memory.
Graphic: Body horror
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Self harm, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Torture, Incest, Toxic relationship, and Rape
Every short story has its own number of content warnings as they are all pretty dark, but none are tittilating or explicit with the exception of BloodChild. light spoiler ---->