2. “Bloodchild” is a Pregnant Man Story! At least this is what Octavia Butler called it. The men in question are all cisgender, but they are physically the best hosts to carry young.

In Octavia E. Butler’s novelette “Bloodchild,” a quantum of humanity fleeing Earth finds sanctuary on a distant planet—but at a price. The native Tlic, a species of intelligent ...

At Octavia E. Butler Magnet’s library, students can see her picture in the 1961 yearbook, her eighth grade promotion certificate, assignments, even report cards from her time at the school.

Octavia E. Butler’s died in 2006 but her book, Parable of the Sower, ... The short story Bloodchild is a commentary on biology. Science fiction is not all space ships and tech.

Octavia E Butler’s short story ‘Bloodchild’ appeared in a 1984 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine. As you can imagine, ... Octavia E Butler’s Posthuman Ontologies.

Science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler poses near some of her novels at University Book Store in Seattle in 2004. (Joshua Trujillo/SeattlePI/AP) Fans and critics can’t yet decide on the ...

ESSAY - Many of us thought about Butler, who died in 2006, on her recent June 22 birthday -- but her work lives on. A graphic adaptation of Butler’s seminal time-travel novel 'Kindred' might ...

Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred is almost fifty years old and timeless. It’s the quintessentially American novel, so it had to be daunting to approach the work for an adaptation.

Bloodchild cover art by Wayne D. Barlowe. When Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred was assigned to me in a university literature course, I didn’t know what I was in for. Assigned books can be like ...