Podcasts about bloodchild

Another solo ep. Readings from "Real Net Worth Of House Of Saudis" by Luke Belmar, "The Witch" and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, "The Man Whom The Trees Loved" by Algernon Blackwood, "Les Fleurs" by Thomas Ligotti, and "Bloodchild" and "Amnesty" by Octavia Butler.

Earlier this week, Aaron sat down with Jacob and Joss, the hosts of The Socialist Shelf — a podcast about good fiction and changing the world — to discuss three stories from Octavia Butler's short story collection, "Bloodchild" ("Bloodchild," "Amnesty," and "Book of Martha"). How does one sanitize literally being eaten alive? What would you do with the powers of a God? Who's more evil, alien invaders or the US government? (Okay, that one's obvious.) Check out Jacob (who also runs the The Socialist Shelf Twitter account) and Joss over on social media, and listen to their podcast! The Socialist Shelf on Spotify Follow us on Twitter: @ELCpod Follow us on IG: everybodylovescommunism Like what you heard? Be sure to give us a 5 Star Rating on Apple Podcasts!

Containing Matters in which the Past reaches the Present. Timestamps: introductions, Butler biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary (48:17) spoiler general discussion, tv show discussion (1:57:58) Bibliography: Behrent, Megan -"The Personal is Historical: Slavery, Black Power, and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred", College Literature, volume 46, issue 4 (2019) Butler, Octavia E. - "Positive Obsession" in "Bloodchild and Other Stories" (1995) Donaldson, Eileen - "A contested freedom: The fragile future of Octavia Butler's Kindred" English Academy Review, volume 31, issue 2 (2014) Flagel, Nadine, “It's Almost Like Being There”: Speculative Fiction, Slave Narrative, and the Crisis of Representation in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Canadian Review of American Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2012) Francis, Conseula (ed.) - "Conversations with Octavia Butler" (2010) Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu - "The Dilemmas of Hope and History: Concrete Utopianism in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred" Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, volume 6, issue 1 (2017) Hua, Linh U. - "Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist Sentimentality in Octavia Butler's Kindred", African American Review, volume 44, issue 3 (2011) LaCroix, David - "To Touch Solid Evidence: The Implicity of Past and Present in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, volume 40, issue 1 (2007) Levecq, Christine - "Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", Contemporary Literature, volume 41, issue 3 (2000) Long, Lisa A. - "A Relative Pain: The Rape of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata", College English, volume 64, issue 4 (2002) Miletic, Philip - "Octavia E. Butler's Response to Black Arts/Black Power Literature and Rhetoric in Kindred" African American Review, volume 49, issue 3 (2016) Mitchell, A. - "Not Enough of the Past Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", MELUS, volume 26, issue 3 (2001) Octavia E. Butler official website https://www.octaviabutler.com/ Parham, Marisa - "Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Callaloo, volume 32, issue 4 (2009) Popescu, Irina - "Empathetic Trappings: Revisiting the Nineteenth Century in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Journal of Human Rights (2017) Robertson, Benjamin - "Some Matching Strangeness: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Science Fiction Studies, volume 37, issue 3 (2010) Rowell, Charles H. and Butler, Octavia E. - "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", Callaloo (1997) Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. - "Families of Orphans: Relation and Disrelation in Octavia Butler's Kindred", College English, volume 55, issue 2 (1993) West, C. S. Thembile - "The Competing Demands of Community Survival and Self-Preservation in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Femspec, volume 7, issue 2 (2006)

Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild! Original Airdate: 2/3/2017

On this week's show, we're setting up Shalita Grant, actress and founder of the company Four Naturals Hair. Shalita is a Tony-award nominated actress whose career on the stage has included runs at The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, including originating the role of Cassandra in Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Grant is well known for her recurring character on NCIS: New Orleans, Search Party, the Santa Clarita Diet, and the most recent season of YOU. She recently read and loved Octavia Butler's Bloodchild and other short stories and Brene Brown's Power of Vulnerability, and says that she loves fall (especially because of the cozy socks) and could spend a whole autumn season in Barcelona. Her perfect day includes a hike with her girlfriend and a cuddle with her dogs, and she's a snob about pizza. The guest: Shalita Grant The picks: In the Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado The Verifiers by Jane Pek Trust Exercise by Susan Choi The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole Where to find us: Find our show online at blinddatewithabookpod.com and @bookmeetcute on Twitter and Instagram. Please follow and tell us all the books you've fallen in love with recently.

Thema der Woche: Kurzgeschichten! Weil. Kurzgeschichten. Gehen. Immer. Diesmal handelt es sich um eine Kurzgeschichtensammlung aus dem Jahre 1986, die die Behauptung aufstellt „The Worlds Best SF“ zu sein, (Herausgegeben von Donald A Wollheim) Aber ob das stimmt? Viel Licht, viel Schatten! Und „Bloodchild“ von Oktavia Buttler.

"Sonidos del habla" (Speech Sounds) es un cuento de ciencia ficción de la escritora estadounidense Octavia E. Butler. Se publicó por primera vez en la revista de ciencia ficción de Asimov en 1983. Le valió a Butler su primer premio Hugo a la mejor historia corta en 1984.La historia se recopiló posteriormente en la antología Bloodchild and Other Stories de Butler y en la antología de ciencia ficción Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps Series 2000 #12: Brain Juice. Along the way, they discuss alien orthography; New Jersey's South Mountain Reservation; theatricality; the smart kid bullies of New Jersey; Surgeon Simulator; cow tools; exposing the ignorance of the faculty; norming and intelligence; Shel Silverstein; hiding your drug use; A Body to Die For: The Aaron Henry Story; Terry Bisson's “They're Made Out of Meat”; “Citizen Kang” from Treehouse of Horror VII; The Twilight Zone's “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” and “To Serve Man”; Herodotus; shifting POVs; Pulp Fiction; Casino; Rashomon; The Handmaiden; Flowers for Algernon; Lawnmower Man; Nebuchadnezzar; Gifted; Atlas Shrugged; “My Fair Gretchen” from Recess; (power) hungry aliens; War of the Worlds; Little Shop of Horrors; Flash Gordon; Fantastic Planet; Octavia Butler's Bloodchild; lying to pump someone up; The Matrix; IT: Ch. 2; Election; the old drink switcharoo; The Princess Bride; supplements; & scary smarts. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In the first of this three-part series covering Tales to Give You Goosebumps #1, Andy and Alyssa read "The House of No Return," "Teacher's Pet," and "Strained Peas." In their discussion of "The House of No Return," they talk about the first person plural, Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Virgin Suicides" (1993), Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The House on the Hill" (1869), the pathetic fallacy, Halloween costume choices, Shirley Jackson and small town horror, Freddy Krueger, wiliness, Hocus Pocus (1993), fairy tales, tradesies, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, things ostensibly for your own good, the Saw and Purge franchises, Alice Miller's "For Your Own Good" (1980), old possessive ghosts, the "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" episode of The X-Files (1998), La Llorona, trauma bonding and cults, spend-the-night dares, The House on Haunted Hill (1959 and 1999), Cassandra Khaw's "Nothing But Blackened Teeth" (2021), Stephen King's 1408 (story 1999, film 2007), Nash and Zullo's "Totally Haunted Kids" (1994), and H.G. Wells's "The Red Room" (1894). With "Teacher's Pet," they discuss dumb gender lessons, rhinestones, snake education vs Andy's education, fears about eco-terrorism, the "Darkness Falls" and "Die Hand die verletzt" episodes of The X-Files (1994 and 95), Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith's "Michelle Remembers" (1980), animal liberation gone wrong, 28 Days Later (2002), 12 Monkeys (1995), Dracula's Renfield, The Omen (1976), ssssssssnakessssssss, Anaconda (1997) and other snake movies, snake people, Medusa, seitan, research and me-search, the "Shy Girl" episode of Masters of Horror (2006), The Fly (1986), Swamp Thing (1982), unresolved endings, Black Christmas (1974), The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Oculus (2013), and why R.L. Stine likes to leave us with a final scare. And in "Strained Peas," they talk about Dr. Destro, conflating morals and feelings, racial coding, scary babies, We Need to Talk About Kevin (novel 2003, film 2011), The Exorcist (novel 1971, film 1973), Who Can Kill a Child? (1976), The Brood (1979), Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" (1985), The Baby (1973), being replaced by a new child, Addams Family Values (1993), The Good Son (1993), The Orphan (2009), sibling rivalry, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Dead Ringers (1988), Psycho Yoga Instructor (2020), stalkers in your home, The Grudge (2004), secret baby switches, The Changeling (1980), and Big Business (1988). They wrap up talking about short story collections, Edenic parables, and the diamondback rattler. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

This was such a fun interview and I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did. From an early age Nath was a story teller. Throughout his early life he followed creative pursuits from music, roles in high school musicals to creative writing. He dreamed of being an actor in his teenage years but as life does, life went a different way. He wrote as a hobby through his early and mid-twenties, but it was not until his late thirties when he started stand-up comedy, that his writing became a focus. In 2020 he was preparing to start writing his first hour comedy show to tour New Zealand's Fringe Festival circuit, however he had no drive for comedy at the time and found himself writing stories once more. Within a month he had written the first draft of Slaveboy, which was published on 6th December 2020. He quickly followed up with the second book in the series, Bloodchild. After a life of looking, he had finally found his direction and his drive. As a published author, he now has the medium to share his stories, share his vision and share his imagination. Share the journey with him! To get the book here is the link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slave-Boy-Book-Democ-chu-DemocChu/dp/1913973077/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Nath+Brye&qid=1638353542&sr=8-2

As part of Radio 4's Day of the Scientist Harriett Gilbert asks two scientists and broadcasters to choose a book on a science theme. Adam Rutherford chooses Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian love story Never Let Me Go. Dr Farrah Jarral says when she first read the novella she has chosen - Octavia Butler's Bloodchild - it blew her mind dealing as it does with interspecies procreation and with underlying themes of control and power imbalance. Harriett Gilbert's choice is Piranesi by Susanna Clarke in which the character 'Piranesi' lives in The House populated by endless corridors and statues and The Other. Producer: Maggie Ayre for BBC Audio, Bristol. First broadcast on Tuesday 12 October 2021.

Andy and Alyssa read Goosebumps #42: Egg Monsters from Mars. They discuss one hell of a last-page surprise, scientific aspirations, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, 1978), sexual assault, E.T. (1982), childbirth and pregnancy horror, Octavia Butler's Bloodchild, Fantastic Planet (1973), Antibirth (2916), slime and 90s kid culture, scifi-horror about becoming a test subject, Firestarter (1984), The Twilight Zone, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Village of the Damned (1960, 1995), Dana Scully, the trope of alien probing, kidnapping horror, The Human Centipede (2009), The Cell (2000), tardigrades, C.S. Lewis's kinkiness, and facts about eggs. Also, Alyssa accidentally calls Brandy by Dana's name, and Andy gives some background about what was happening with Mars in the 1990s. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

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This week, Patricia talks about a couple backlist titles including some short stories by one of sci-fi’s greatest authors! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todos amamos las historias post-nucleares. Si no fuera así, ¿por qué se habrían escrito tantas? Hay algo fascinante en la desaparición de todas esas personas, en el vagar por un mundo despoblado, rapiñando latas de cerdo con alubias, defendiendo a la propia familia de los merodeadores. Sin duda es horrible, sin duda nos apenamos por toda esa gente muerta. Pero en algún lugar oculto de nuestra mente pensamos que estaría bien sobrevivir, comenzar de nuevo. En secreto, sabemos que sobreviviremos. Son los demás los que morirán. De eso tratan las historias post-nucleares.📘 Octavia E. Butler fue autora de una docena de novelas y varios relatos cortos… un gigante en este campo que murió antes de tiempo. Fue la primera escritora de ciencia ficción que recibió la prestigiosa beca genius de la MacArthur Foundation, y también recibió un premio al mérito aún en vida por su obra producida desde el PEN American Center. En el campo de la ficción especulativa también fue reconocida su obra tras ganar dos Hugo, dos Nebula y un Locus… y su novela corta Bloodchild obtuvo los tres galardones. Murió en febrero de 2006. La obra de Butler explora con frecuencia el tema de la vida tras el Apocalipsis. Aunque ninguna de sus novelas podría ser clasificada primariamente como post-apocalíptica, sus tres series en varios volúmenes (la trilogía Xenogenesis , las series Patternist , y la bilogía Parable ) tienen lugar en un entorno post-apocalíptico, convirtiéndola en una importante autora de este subgénero, aunque sus libros no pertenezcan realmente a él.🖋️ Este relato, que ganó el premio Hugo en 1984, fue escrito por Butler tras presenciar una sangrienta y absurda pelea mientras iba en el autobús. En su colección de relatos, Bloodchild and Other Stories , Butler afirmaba que al presenciar la pelea se preguntó «si la especie humana evolucionaría lo suficiente para comunicarse sin emplear un tipo u otro de puños». Y entonces, se le ocurrió la primera línea de este relato. ⤵️ Estoy en Twitter @hleidas, no te pierdas nada!!------------------------------------------------ Todos los sábados un relato para ti. Ciencia Ficción, Fantasía, Terror, Ficción Sonora.----------------------------------------------------------- Gracias por tu comentario y tu escucha, hasta el próximo audio.💌 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Octavia Butler's “Bloodchild” is a coming-of-age story, featuring Gan, a young man living on a faraway planet--which at some point in the distant past was colonized by humans. The planet is home to a sentient giant worm-like people. When the humans first arrived, they tried to kill the worms. The worms, in turn, tried to enslave the humans, as they could be used to incubate their own young. But now, it seems, the planet has reached a kind of precarious balance. The humans and the worms are able to live side-by-side. The worms protect the humans by giving them lands to live on, away from worm society. In exchange, the humans--specifically the boys and men--are used as breeding stock for the worm eggs. Recommended in this episode: Lisa Tuttle's short fiction Some extra reading on "Bloodchild": https://www.tor.com/2018/09/06/why-men-get-pregnant-bloodchild-by-octavia-e-butler/  https://bookriot.com/is-it-possible-to-misread-octavia-butler/ Please rate and review us, or better yet, tell a friend.  Our social media is @MonsterWrote on Twitter and Instagram. Our email is monsterwrote@gmail.com. This episode was produced and researched by Lisa and Mel. Theme music is “Misconception” by Nicolas Gasparini. 

This week, we dive into Octavia Butler's short story, Bloodchild. Full disclosure, this one gets a little visceral, but in our defense, it' a visceral read. We discuss themes of love, symbiosis, and parasitic relationships as they relate to the narrative. It's a real romp through this wild sci-fi tale.Hope you enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're back with a discussion about one of the greatest Community episodes: "Mixology Certification." Deb (@wordybee) has returned to talk about both the funny and melancholy of Troy's 21st birthday. They tackle the Jeff/Britta of it all, Shirley's sad backstory, Annie's identity crisis, and more. Enjoy this episode with some no-no juice if you like! ;)Our recommended media:"Little Fires Everywhere" (book | miniseries)"Kindred" and "Bloodchild and Other Stories" by Octavia E. Butler"Dread Nation" and "Deathless Divide" by Justina IrelandIf you're frustrated with the world, make sure you're registered to vote. You can mail in your ballots or vote in person. Whichever option you choose, just vote so that change is possible.

Host Editors Claire and Annar discuss current events, including the Black Lives Matter marches that have taken place across the nation against the backdrop of a global pandemic. They take a look at our current moment through the lens of science fiction, focusing on two sci-fi writers who are women of color. The books discussed in this episode are The Memory Police by Yoko Ozawa, Bloodchild by Octavia Butler, and her Xenogenesis trilogy.

In the first episode Becky and Jim discuss why stories can be so powerful and lasting over time as they are told and retold. Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild is the focus text.

#BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter, BLACK LIVES MATTER, oh my! Jen and Shaun return (sorta) to the Reading Rangers format to discuss our latest announcement about the direction of the show for the remainder of 2020 AND to examine Octavia Butler's “Bloodchild” and Tochi Onyebuchi's Tor.com essay, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.” This one is […]

Octavia E. Butler published science fiction from the 1970s until her death in 2006. She studied at the Screenwriter's Guild Open Door Program and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop, where she met other science fiction writers, like Harlan Ellison, and began publishing her stories, the first of which was 1971's “Crossover.” She influenced numerous women of color currently writing science fiction and fantasy such as Jewelle Gomez, N. K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Nisi Shawl, and Nalo Hopkinson, to name a few. She was the first science fiction writer to win a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, one among many awards and honors she received, including multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Locus Award. She is probably best known for her 1979 novel Kindred and her 1985 novella “Bloodchild,” both of which are often taught in literature classrooms. Her novels Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are eerily prescient explorations of post-apocalyptic dystopia. Her final novel Fledgling (2005) was her take on vampires and the topic of today's discussion.   

This month your podcasters discuss Bloodchild by Octavia Butler, winner of the 1985 Hugo Award for best novelette, and a boatload of other awards. We also make a special announcement at the top of the episode. CW: forced pregnancy/birth, colonialism, giant insects Music by Eon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss

In this episode of What The SFF?!, we're joined by two of Angry Robot's newest authors: Rob Greene, writer of just-released debut The Light Years, and Ginger Smith, whose first novel The Rush's Edge will be out later this year! Listen in as they chat to junior robot Sam McQueen about researching sci-fi, what they've learned about the art of writing from the art of teaching, the trials and tribulations of collecting typewriters and toys, and a very expensive way of getting rid of a body... Find this month's guests here: Rob Greene https://twitter.com/rwwgreene https://www.instagram.com/rwwgreene/?hl=en https://www.rwwgreene.com Ginger Smith https://twitter.com/GSmithauthor Buy their books here: The Light Years: https://smarturl.it/TheLightYears The Rush's Edge: https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/shop/year/2020/the-rushs-edge/ Further reading/watching/listening here: Bloodchild by Octavia Butler: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781583226988 Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143128793 Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781490423913 Neuromancer (Book 1 of the Sprawl Trilogy) by William Gibson: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780441569595 Rob's piece on his typewriter collection from Mary Robinette Kowal's My Favourite Bit blog: http://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit-r-w-w-greene-talks-about-the-light-years/ The Mars Foundation http://www.marsfoundation.org/ Roadhouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_House_(1989_film) To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar: https://open.spotify.com/album/7ycBtnsMtyVbbwTfJwRjSP The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd: https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv The Beatles (aka The White Album) by The Beatles: https://open.spotify.com/album/1WMVvswNzB9i2UMh9svso5 The Lord of the Rings/Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope: Sorry, never heard of them, you're on your own there...

In which Alex and Cass discuss The Animatrix, directed by Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Takeshi Koike, and produced by The Wachowskis with Madhouse and Studio 4°C. Next month, we will be discussing Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Discussed: Cass watched the matrix for the first time ever, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, is the matrix actually a smart movie or a dumb movie, The Matrix Is Not Actually About What If We All Live In A Computer Simulation, TV and the nuclear being of the same nature, Marshall McLuhan, "Minisode - The Medium is the Message" by Dan Olson, Marshall McLuhan's hot and cold media, Cass trying and failing to summarize Baudrillard, "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis, Cass trying to and more successfully summarizing The Matrix, the red pill, blondes, brunettes, redheads, dying in the matrix, dying in real life, ejecting a flash drive, They Live, Fight Club, a clear indictment of everything that Brad Pitt stands for, American History X, the sad filmography of Jim Uhls, The Three Kinds of 90s, Kevin Smith Big Jorts, "Do You Want to Believe?" by PBS Idea Channel, the reason why you're miserable, "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher, Cass Completely Loses Their Train of Thought, Ben Pack's tweet about The Matrix, Cass completely loses the plot of the podcast and talks about Hypermarket and Hypercommodity for way too long, the Oculus, Hudson Yards, Actually Talking About The Animatrix Fully An Hour And Ten Minutes Into This Podcast, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Code Lyoko, SHOW US MORPHEUS' DICK RIGHT NOW, getting a boner in the construct, Enter The Matrix, The Matrix Online, "Endurance Run: The Matrix Online: Not Like This", canon is an abyss, lore is terrible and must be destroyed, robot israel, The Young Pope, the kessel run, Star Wars prequel defenders, Karl Popper, gross muscles, jumping off the roof to self-actualize, oh lawd he comin, too old for this shit, teaching robots about humanity using Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne", alexa, pull my consciousness into your hardware, going back in time to smash the utah teapot Alex's book recommendation: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler Cass's book recommendation: Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher Social: Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

Octavia Butler’s Bloochild and Other Stories was originally published in 1995.  The book collects seven stories from throughout Butler’s career, and in this episode we focus on the title story, which depicts a social and sexual relationship between humans and a race of alien beings.  Later, we discuss the penultimate story in the collection, Amnesty, which explores the complexities of confrontation with the alien other.    Over the course of the episode, we examine the degree to which the stories may be said to engage with slavery and American history, and consider Butler’s implementation of the ‘pregnant man’ motif.  Bibliography: ‘Mama's Baby, Papa's Slavery? The Problem and Promise of Mothering in Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild’ by Kristen Lillvis in MELUS, Vol. 39, No. 4, Gender, Transnationalism, and Ethnic American Identity (Winter, 2014) Octavia E. Butler: Modern Masters of Science Fiction (University of Illinois, 2016)  by Gerry Canavan

Books Reviewed: Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond Then It Fell Apart by Moby Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel by Neal Stephenson To Live and Die in LA (Podcast) Hosted by Neil Strauss Left For Dead: 30 Years On - The Race is Finally Over by Nick Ward and Sinead O'Brien Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory by Michael Korda How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

I traveled to Los Angeles for a guest spot on @lestalkradio with @chelleychellesig and to connect with soooooo many inspiring and dope asf queer womxn of color. These folks are curating spaces for a demographic that often finds it hard to just BE in the spaces available, and to be more wholly understood. In addition to recounting my charmed visit, I delve deeply into a shorty story in the "Bloodchild" collection, called The Evening and the Morning And the Night. It's a reading of an hour and some, so skip to the last segment if you're not up for that just yet. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jh2bhere/support

This week’s heavy topics: Trauma and repression Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection How this book resonates today in regard to school shootings Kids are assholes This week’s silly topics: Margot is petty on three (3) occasions Stephen doesn’t understand periods or teenage girls We solve the mystery of Flash Bobby Pickett Freud is right and Lillie is mad about it Billy and Margaret are canceled Recommendations: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik, Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler, and the Diva Cup. Follow us on twitter: @Listen_Stephen Email us: listenstephenpod@gmail.com Support the show at: patreon.com/listenstephen Follow Margot on Twitter: @whattehfoxtrot Our music is by Lena Orsa.

The authors are only mostly dead in this special request episode that takes us to the sci-fi space futures of "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler and "Sandkings" by George RR Martin. Learn the do's and don'ts of exotic (occasionally human) pet ownership as Megan gets a phobia of bugs and novel-related nomenclature while RJ talks like the animals and enlists in the #StugotzArmySupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OhNoLitClassStart your podcast on Simplecast: http://refer.smplc.st/OhNoLitClass

In the 7th episode of Lexivore, the first episode of Season 2, Renee and Megha talk about Black History month, touching on some black authors to read and enjoy, and some of the history behind the civil rights movement, including both fiction and nonfiction. Books touched on include Bloodchild by Octavia Butler, Becoming by Michelle Obama, Well Read Black Girl by Gloria Edim, The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory, Freedom's Daughters by Lynn Olson, and a handful of others. We also include a teaser for our next episode, which is going to be about social justice, yay! We hope you enjoy our podcast!

A new month, a new book! Or in this case, series of books. The Binti Trilogy is a set of short novellas by Nnedi Okorafor. Together they are about the same size as a novel (and about the cost). They tell the story of a young woman in Western Africa who gets an invitation to the best university in the galaxy, and leaves everything she knows to attend. However, these aren't your typical chosen one or fish out of water school stories, and they take a lot of unexpected twists and turns along the way. We loved the first two novellas when we read them, and so we're excited to get to re-read and finish the whole trilogy, especially after the diappointment of our last book! In this spoiler-free episode, Adrian and Matt discuss the musical and literary roots of Afrofuturism, Adrian's experience going from a rural town to a major university, and why we love these books so much. Instead of doing one post-read episode this month, we're going to be doing a shorter post-read episode week for a successive novella. The novellas and our schedule are: - Binti (June 12)- Binti: Home (June 19)- Binti: The Night Masquerade (June 26) And some of the other works we mention include: - Afrofuturism by Ytasha L. Womack (highly recommended intro)- Sun Ra & His Archestra- A Love Supreme by John Coltrane- Harnessed the Storm by Drexciya- ATLiens by OutKast- Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious- Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe (album / movie)- Bloodchild and Lillith's Brood by Octavia Butler- Dhalgren and Nova by Sam Delany- The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin- Black Panther by Ryan Coogler (soundtrack by Kendrick Lamar) As always, we'd love to hear from you! Tweet us at @spectologypod, submit the episode at r/printSF, or email us at spectologypod@gmail.com with your thoughts about the book. In particular, check out our twitter this month, where we'll be posting a lot of great Afrofuturist art, music, and other resources.  Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Episode 7 of Fantastic Transmissions is about Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler. Bloodchild is a multiple-award-winning story by a multiple-award-winning author about the symbiotic (or parasitic?) relationship between a human colony and their insectoid overlords. We discuss the idea of male pregnancy, and attempt to answer the big question about Bloodchild: is it about slavery? The intro music is sampled from Clyde Borly and His Percussions, off the album "Music in Five Dimensions." The rest of the music in the podcast was created by Blue Dot Sessions. Their work can be found on the Free Music Archive under a Non-Commercial Attribution License. You can also find all their tracks at www.sessions.blue. References and a complete transcript, as well as links to my other projects, can be found at my blog, Off Michael's Bookshelf.   

In this episode we discuss "Bloodchild" a Hugo award winning story by Octavia Butler with our guest Rose Eveleth. Along with the story we discuss topics including sexy centipedes, gender roles and the human body, and the Broken Earth trilogy, among many others. Here's where you can find everything: Bloodchild: www.melissagish.com (We know it doesn't appear to be the story, but, trust us, it is.) Rose Eveleth & Flash Forward: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/

Amanda and Jenn discuss book group picks, medieval fiction, sci-fi short stories, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Libby and the Book Riot Bookstore Giveaway. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here.   Questions 1. Hi- going on a road trip with my 22 year old daughter from North Carolina back home to Texas in late November. Looking for an audiobook recommendation to listen to on the drive- something possibly set in the south with a mystery or supernatural bent. We like smart characters and a plot that is twisty. --Jen   2. Hi ladies! I am a librarian at a small library outside Philadelphia with a HUGE book-club-in-a-bag collection (it comes with books, audiobooks, discussion materials--the whole works). I've just recently taken over the collection and I realized that it is tragically white. I'm doing what I can to remedy that, but I was hoping for some suggestions for diverse, newer, fairly accessible book-club lit (or non-fiction!) for the collection. We've got The Underground Railroad, The Mothers, Little Fires Everywhere, Behold the Dreamers, and Between the World and Me, to name a few. Thanks so much! --Katherine   3. Hi Amanda and Jenn!! I listen to Get Booked religiously, and you guys have steered me into so many things I've absolutely loved. I just finished the Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and it's left me craving more books with meaningful, adult-child relationships where at least one party is choosing to be in the others' life (adoption, mentor-ship, and similar.) What I specifically loved about A.J. and Maya was how genuinely they liked each other as people. I'd love to read more in that vein, if you have any recommendations? Thanks! --Lauren   4. Hello! First I want you to know that I love the show. My TBR list is huge now and My husband keeps side eyeing me as I bring new books home. I'm currently reading Doomsday Book by Connie Willis and it has made me realize how much I love books about the Middle Ages or Medieval times. I've also read the Inquisitor's Tale and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. What other recommendations do you have that take place in that time or are similar to those books? Thanks so much!! --Olivia   5. I suffer from a chronic pain condition and would like to find books that have conditions similar to mine (or other disabilities). Memoir or fiction would be great. I've read both of Jenny Lawson's books and cried when I found out that she had arthritis because I do not get to read about people with similar experiences much. (No Me Before You please!) --Emily   6. Hi Get Booked Ladies! I have always loved Science Fiction and in the last few months have really gotten into short story collections. I have recently read "Stories of Your Life" by Ted Chiang (this is probably going to be my favorite book of the year), "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler, and "Three Moments of an Explosion" by China Mieville. I have also loved in the past "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury. I currently have "​Beyond the Rift" by Peter Watts and "Miracle" by Connie Willis on my upcoming TBR. I am looking for some more interesting and well written sci-fi short story collections!​ ​I enjoy hard sci-fi and first contact stories. Dark, weird, speculative, and bizarre are also great ​descriptors​ for me. ​Just FYI...​I don't​ really​ like fantasy​​ (I never understood why sci-fi and fantasy are ​clumped together). Thank​ you so much​ and love your show! --Andrea :)   7. Hi! I teach high school English, and often listen to the podcast on my way to work, which makes for a lovely commute (but also makes it impossible to write down all of the books I want to read). I work with several young people who are hunters, and want to read about hunting/survival/outdoorsy stuff. We have Paulsen's Hatchet and sequels and Si-cology 101 (Duck Dynasty), which have been popular among this group, and one student is reading Where the Red Fern Grows. Another of these readers started American Sniper but never finished it, and they've all read The Hunger Games. I'm ordering some Jon Krakauer, but I'm looking for more recommendations that might strike a chord with this group of readers - fiction or nonfiction, especially things that are a little more grownup (YA is awesome - more of that, please, but I worry they're not challenged by some of the middle grades texts we have available). Thanks, and I promise to stop the car to listen to your reply (or, even better, listen with students) :) --Jennifer   Books Discussed A Promise of Fire by Amanda Bouchet Jade City by Fonda Lee Crooked Letter Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin The Cutting Season by Attica Locke   Shelter by Jung Yun The Wangs vs The World by Jade Chang My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman, translated by Henning Koch (recommended by Elizabeth) Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig A Bed of Spices by Barbara Samuel Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin The Escape by Mary Balogh The Right Way to Be Crippled and Naked, edited by Annabelle Hayse, Sheila Black, and Michael Northen Pain Woman Takes Your Keys by Sonya Huber Overclocked by Cory Doctorow Galactic Empires, edited by Neil Clarke The Land by Mildred Taylor (recommended by Danika) The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild!

Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild!

Black History Month kicks off with the excellent Octavia E. Butler story Bloodchild!

On This Episode of The Beautiful Butterfly Radio Show , We Welcome Author Hope McGill, and We discuss her Upcoming New Release " Pearls II". Peals II is another HOT Spin Off from Pearls I and Its Bound to Keep You on Your Toes and MORE!!! Our Special Guest is Also Giving away a FREE KINDLE, To One Lucky Winner, So Make Sure You are TUNED in!!!  Meet Our Special Guest: Hope McGill grew up in New York City's famed neighborhood of Harlem. She began writing at the age of sixteen, but her love of literature began as a child. Reading has always been a means of escape for her. Curling up with a good book helped her to explore the world and meet fascinating people. As she grew older, her appetite for reading grew immensely and the books became more diverse. She began to read books such as, J. California Cooper’s, Life Is Short But Wide, Treasure E Blue’s, Harlem Girl Lost, Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, as well as the classic, Manchild In The Promised Land by Claude Brown. The excitement and joy of reading these various authors inspired her to begin writing. Her stories feature real people with real lives, real problems, and extraordinary passion. She wants her work to offer comfort in times when things don’t appear as if they are working out. Her passion for people, music, art, and life, fuel her writing. In the future, she would like to share her personal experiences with young women, by mentoring them or working with community-based programs.

Amy Kind, professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, and Shelley Streeby, professor of ethnic studies and literature at the University of California, San Diego, explore futuristic notions of family and reproduction in the work of science fiction author Octavia Butler. Butler’s short story “Bloodchild” is a special focus of the discussion. This event is part of Radio Imagination, a series of programs and artist commissions exploring Butler’s legacy, organized by the arts group Clockshop. Recorded Nov. 3, 2016.

Octavia Butler's short story Speech Sounds was first published by the December 1983 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. I read the story in her collection Bloodchild and Other Stories, published in 1995. Speech Sounds tells the story of a woman living in a postapocalyptic world where many people have lost the ability to speak or read. Have you read this story? Let me know what you think on Twitter @ShortSFreview. I'm posting these episodes as well as some of my own short stories onto my website http://www.joncronshaw.co.uk - my latest story Reaching for a Larlun is a surreal piece of fantasy fiction about the meeting of two minds. #scifi #SFF #NebulaAward s #HugoAwards

Wendee and Dan end Dan's minor freakout at having confused different portions of the DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince catalog by remembering to thank Patreon subscriber Rick with a discussion of Octavia E. Butler's remarkable novelette Bloodchild. Visit www.patreon.com/bookswp to learn more about making the hosts into your trained seals!

Wendee and Dan end Dan's minor freakout at having confused different portions of the DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince catalog by remembering to thank Patreon subscriber Rick with a discussion of Octavia E. Butler's remarkable novelette Bloodchild. Visit www.patreon.com/bookswp to learn more about making the hosts into your trained seals!

Wendee and Dan end Dan's minor freakout at having confused different portions of the DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince catalog by remembering to thank Patreon subscriber Rick with a discussion of Octavia E. Butler's remarkable novelette Bloodchild. Visit www.patreon.com/bookswp to learn more about making the hosts into your trained seals!

Wendee and Dan end Dan's minor freakout at having confused different portions of the DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince catalog by remembering to thank Patreon subscriber Rick with a discussion of Octavia E. Butler's remarkable novelette Bloodchild. Visit www.patreon.com/bookswp to learn more about making the hosts into your trained seals!

My last night of childhood began with a visit home. T'Gatoi's sister had given us two sterile eggs. T'Gatoi gave one to my mother, brother, and sisters. She insisted that I eat the other one alone. It didn't matter. There was still enough to leave everyone feeling good. Almost everyone. My mother wouldn't take any. […]

Horror Addicts Episode# 033 Horror Hostess: Emerian Rich Intro Music by: Saints Of Ruin ---------------------------- Featured Author: Laurel Anne Hill Featured Music: Jenn Vix Featured Movie: Perfect Creature, 2006 ---------------------------- ***THEME: VAMPIRES!!!!*** Line - up: | Jenn Vix Bumper | New staff Sapphire | New HA Blog | New Theme Song: Saints of Ruin | | Monster Season! | Frankenstien | Vampire Quiz | Vampire Trivia | HA Favorite Vampires | | Vampire Doll | Lilith's Love | Edwardian Ball | NY Vampire Ball | Best Vampire Heroine | | Royal Blood | Ian McCracken | Netera Coffee Chat | London School Of Journalism | | Morpheus Tales | Von Buchholz Books | Rodarte | Meet an Author | | Buy NK on MOBIPOCKET Jan 23rd! | Jenn Vix | Grave Concerns | Gothic Beauty FB Club | | Vampire Quiz Answers | Laurel Anne Hill | Full show notes available at http://www.horroraddicts.net/ ---------------------------- Emerian Rich: http://www.emzbox.com/ HA Forum: http://www.emzbox.ning.com/ Saints Of Ruin: http://www.saintsofruin.com/ Taping held live @ Quills, A Place For Writers on Second Life, 22 Gutenberg Alley, Book Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/240/192/37 THEME: VAMPIRES!!! ***New Staff, Sapphire: http://emzbox.ning.com/profile/SapphireNeal ***New HA Blog: http://www.horroraddicts.wordpress.com/ ***New Theme Song Band: Saints of Ruin http://www.saintsofruin.com/ ***FILM: Perfect Creature, 2006 ~ Knightmist review http://emzbox.ning.com/forum/topics/perfect-creature-2007 ***The Real Frankenstien Experiment ~ Audrey http://emzbox.ning.com/forum/topics/the-real-frankenstein FAVORITES!!! BOOKS:Anne Rice, L.J. Smith, Bloodchild, Twilight, Salem's Lot MOVIES: Interview with the Vampire, Lost Boys, Let the Right One In, Dusk Til Dawn, Near Dark ANIME: Vampire Hunter D, Blood MANGA: Vampire KNight, Rosario + Vampire TV: Moonlight, Forever Knight, Kindred, Vampire Diaries, Dark Shadows, The COunt (Seasame Street) ***Vampire Doll Manga ~ Emz dashPunk.com review http://dashpunk.com/manga-review-vampire-doll-by-erika-kari/ ***Lilith's Love Promo ~ Dan Shaurette http://www.liliths-love.com/ EVENTS ***THE EDWARDIAN BALL 2010 http://emzbox.ning.com/events/the-edwardian-ball-2010 ***NY Vampire Ball http://emzbox.ning.com/events/ny-vampire-ball ***Who's the best vampire-show heroine ~ Carmilla http://emzbox.ning.com/forum/topics/whos-the-best-vampire-herione CALL-INS ***Royal Blood by Kolina Topel http://www.amazon.com/Royal-Blood-Kolina-Topel/dp/1449976107 SHARE YOUR WRITING ***The Abomination ~ Ian McCracken http://emzbox.ning.com/forum/topics/the-abomination-by-ian Are you a writer? Share your writing on emzbox.ning.com and I may read it on the show. WRITERS CALLS: ***(SL) Netera Coffee Shop Chat & Conference Center http://slurl.com/secondlife/Starrs/229/208/22 ***(SL) London School Of Journalism Build & Con ~ Jilly Kidd http://slurl.com/secondlife/LSJ%20Student%20Union/125/147/501 ***Morpheus Tales Dark Sorcery Special Issue ~ Writers wanted! http://emzbox.ning.com/forum/topics/morpheus-tales-dark-sorcery ***Von Buchholz Books Poets Wanted http://www.vonbuchholz.com/submission-guidelines/ FASHION: ***Rodarte: Fashion Inspired by Horror Movies http://www.lstudio.com/rodarte.html EMZ STUFF: ***Emz ~ Meet An Author Show http://vodpod.com/watch/2555954-meet-an-author-emerian-rich?pod=emzbox ***BUY Night's Knights on MOBIPOCKET! To support Emz Jan 23rd!!! http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=261561 MUSIC: ***Jenn Vix, Vampires http://www.jennvix.com/ ***Grave Concerns http://www.graveconcernsezine.com/ NETBUZZ ***Gothic Beauty Club on Facebook ~ Congrats Keri! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95097282411 INTERVIES: ***13 Questions with Laurel Anne Hill ~Sapphire http://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/13-questions-with-laurel-anne-hill/ STORY: Wings Of Revenge by Laurel Anne Hill http://www.redroom.com/author/laurel-anne-hill ---------------------------- ***Episode #34: ZOMBIES!!! Records Jan 24th 9:30am Airs 1/28/10 James Cheetham, 28 Days Later, Black Wedding. HA staff: Emerian Rich, Knightmist, Audrey, Carmilla, Sapphire, Ariel, and Camellia with theme song "Halloween Song" by Saints of Ruin. All articles and forum topics can be found at: http://www.emzbox.ning.com/ Season 4 Movies: Perfect Creature 28 Days Later Tale of the Mummy Jeepers Creepers Loch Ness TerrorExorcist Slither The Shining Headless Horseman Skinwalkers Dr. Jeckell & Mr. Hyde/ Dead Like Me The Host