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 wading into murky waters—you’re never sure if ...
In fiction writer Octavia Butler’s story “Bloodchild,” humans have left Earth and must share a neighboring planet with aliens. There, the men must be impregnated and give birth; if they don’t, their ...