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Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars_ contains eleven original stories by recipients of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship (2007 through 2012), plus a reprint of "Speech Sounds" by the scholarship's namesake, Octavia E. Butler. It also includes a brief memoir of Butler by her Clarion classmate Vonda N. McIntyre and an introduction by Nalo Hopkinson. The anthology is edited by Nisi Shawl and published by the Carl Brandon Society, the administrator of the Butler Scholarship Fund.… (more)
This is a stunning anthology. The remembrances of Octavia Butler brought tears to my eyes, and her reprinted story "Speech Sounds" felt all the more meaningful in this context, of a world where speech is a thing envied and hated: a precious thing all the more to be nurtured.
This is full of deeply powerful stories: creepy, moving, affirming. Zombies, aliens, steampunk and magic as you'd expect in an sf anthology, and very much not as you'd expect. Imagery from "My Love Will Never Die", "Dancing in the Shadow of the Once", "/sit", and "The Saltwater African" will linger in my mind for a long time. A couple of others went over my head, in a way which I know will at some point bear rereading.
Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars_ contains eleven original stories by recipients of the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship (2007 through 2012), plus a reprint of "Speech Sounds" by the scholarship's namesake, Octavia E. Butler. It also includes a brief memoir of Butler by her Clarion classmate Vonda N. McIntyre and an introduction by Nalo Hopkinson. The anthology is edited by Nisi Shawl and published by the Carl Brandon Society, the administrator of the Butler Scholarship Fund.
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Edited by Nisi Shawl, Bloodchildren includes an introduction by Nalo Hopkinson and a memoir by Vonda N. McIntyre of her friendship with Octavia Butler, which began when they were students together at the Clarion Workshop in 1970.
The collection includes ground-breaking stories by Indrapramit Das, Shweta Narayan, Caren Gussoff, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Lisa Bolekaja, Chris Caldwell, Jeremy Sim, Erik Owomoyela, Dennis Y. Ginoza, Mary Burroughs, and Kai Ashante Wilson.
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