Octavia Butlers-Bloodchild

Octavia Butlers-Bloodchild

Octavia Butler, research fiction's most prominent and influential African-American woman author, first released ''Bloodchild'' in Isaac Asimov's research Fiction Magazine in 1984 (Zaki, 239-240).

Butler has described ''Bloodchild'' as a article about male pregnancy. Set on a foreign planet inhabited by giant, powerful, and smart insect-like beings, ''Bloodchild'' is the article of a young human male approaching of age and approaching to periods with his function as the carrier of an alien species' eggs. He witnesses the brutal ''delivery'' of alien grubs from the abdomen of another man and is forced to question the connection he has long taken for ...