A review by 11corvus11
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

5.0

This was my introduction to Octavia Butler. In college I took a course called "Sci Fi East and West," in which we read Bloodchild. I think the biggest fault of the course was that the "west" portion only included a short story of Butler's rather than a book. nonetheless, she has become one of my favorite writers since. And we shared a common fear and disgust of parasitic flies which, from what our teacher told us, was an inspiration for Bloodchild.