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Book

Bloodchild and other stories

Call Number

  • SCIENCE FICTION BUTL (CEN, POW)

Publication Information

New York : Seven Stories Press ; [Emeryville, CA] : Publishers Group West [distributor], ©1996.

Physical Description

x, 145 pages ; 19 cm

Summary

Contains all of Octavia E. Butler's short fiction and two essays, the novellas and stories are parables of our contemporary world, pitting human fraility and social and environmental decay against residual strengths of human character and human history.

Contents

  • Bloodchild
  • The evening and the morning and the night
  • Near of kin
  • Speech sounds
  • Crossover
  • Positive obsession
  • Furor scribendi.

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