Bloodchild
And Other Stories
Six extraordinary stories from the author of Kindred, a master of modern science fiction-including a Hugo and Nebula award-winning novella. Octavia E. Butler's classic Bloodchild, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. Bloodchild is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it is not. Also included is the Hugo Award-winning Speech Sounds, about a near future in which humans must adapt after an apocalyptic event robs them of their ability to speak. The…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4532-6366-2
- EAN: 9781453263662
- Produktnummer: 17907970
- Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 145 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'751 KB
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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was a bestselling and award-winning author, considered one of the best science fiction writers of her generation. She received both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first author of science fiction to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. She was also awarded the prestigious PEN Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. Her first novel, Patternmaster (1976), was praised both for its imaginative vision and for Butler's powerful prose, and spawned four prequels, beginning with Mind of My Mind (1977) and finishing with Clay's Ark (1984). Although the Patternist series established Butler among the science fiction elite, it was Kindred (1979), a story of a black woman who travels back in time to the antebellum South, that brought her mainstream success. In 1985, Butler won Nebula and Hugo awards for the novella Bloodchild, and in 1987 she published Dawn, the first novel of the Xenogenesis trilogy, about a race of aliens who visit earth to save humanity from itself. Fledgling (2005) was Butler's final novel. She died at her home in 2006.
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