Summary: The child of human and alien parents must find his own way. One of my reading goals this year was to finished the final two fiction books that Octavia Butler wrote. In November I am just finishing the first of the two, so I am not sure I will get to the second. Imago I … Read more
Summary: Graphic adaptation of the best of Octavia Butler’s books. Over the past couple years I have begun to appreciate the art and promise of the graphic novel. Not as a “˜children’s version’ but as something that can be a true art form to itself. I do not think that John Lewis’ memoir in the … Read more
Summary: Six short stories and introductions by Octavia Butler. As regular readers know, I am not a fan of short stories. Most of the time the issue is that I want more from the stories, more characters, more story, more development. The Bloodchild collection was one of the better short story collections I have read. … Read more
Summary: A 26 year old newlywed African American woman from 1976 somehow gets sent back in time to save the life of a young Maryland plantation owners son, in 1815. A bit over a year ago I picked up Octavia Butler’s book Fledgling more by mistake than anything else. I knew the late Octavia Butler … Read more
A single volume of that includes both the Parable of the Sower and its sequel the Parable of the Talents is on sale for $1.99 on kindle. Summary: A young woman in a dystopian world strives to build a life, a community, and a faith, in the midst of chaos. I have been slowly working … Read more
Summary: Two long lived people interact, love and fight over generations. Wild Seed is now the fourth book and the start of the second series I have read by Octavia Butler. She is a good writer and creates interesting (and wildly different) settings and characters. But Butler is also hard to read at times. Not … Read more
Summary: a human/alien construct explores both his alien and human background and finds both lacking. Adulthood Rites is the second book in a trilogy. After a devastating world war, an alien race has come to earth. The aliens completely dominated the world. The aliens are genetic masters that use genetic manipulation as their main technology. … Read more
Summary: The world has devolved into perpetual war between the clayarks and the patternists. A young patternist must find his way and try to avoid getting killed by either group. Finally at the end of the series I figure out why each of the four books of this series have been so radically different. When … Read more
Summary: A human starship has returned from its first visit to another star system, but it did not come back alone. As I am writing this I have finished the fourth book of the series and finally understood why the books of this series are so different. I will leave that to the review of … Read more
Summary: The subject of Doro’s breeding program, after several thousand years, comes of age. The first book in this series, Wild Seed, was more of a prequel than the first book in the series. Doro is some type of mutant person that was born about 4000 years ago. He accidentally discovered that he could leave one body … Read more