Fledgling

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Rose, Charlie. "Octavia Butler". Charlie Rose. Archived from the original on June 5, 2020 . Retrieved June 5, 2020. Cox, Carolyn (February 24, 2018). "15 Fascinating Facts About Octavia Butler". Portalist. Open Road Media. Octavia Butler profile and photos at the Huntington Library. She bequeathed her papers to the Huntington. Darrell Schweitzer, "Watching the Story Happen", Interzone 186 (February 2003): 21. Reprinted as "Octavia Butler" in Speaking of the Fantastic II: Interviews with the Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2004. ISBN 978-1-4344-4229-1, pp.21–36. A new indie bookstore named for Octavia Butler is opening in the author's hometown". Literary Hub. January 3, 2023. Archived from the original on February 18, 2023 . Retrieved February 18, 2023.

Putting that aside, the rest of the novel doesn't break any new ground. Far from it. Can anyone else remember a novel that starts out with an amnesiac MC? Anyone? Is it one out of six novels? By proportion, I do believe that about that many of us in real life must be amnesiac. It makes sense, doesn't it? That's probably why we keep forgetting how many times we've read novels with amnesiac main characters. Marilyn Mehafly and AnaLouise Keating, "'Radio Imagination': Octavia Butler on the Politics of Narrative Embodiment", MELUS 26.1. 2001, pp.45–76. JSTOR 3185496. doi: 10.2307/3185496.For the next five years, Butler worked on the novels that became known as the Patternist series: Patternmaster (1976), Mind of My Mind (1977), and Survivor (1978). In 1978, she was able to stop working at temporary jobs and live on her income from writing. [10] She took a break from the Patternist series to research and write a stand-alone novel, Kindred (1979). She finished the Patternist series with Wild Seed (1980) and Clay's Ark (1984). Elber-Aviram, Hadas. "Constitutional Amnesia and Future Memory Science Fiction's Posthuman Vampire." Of Empire and the City: Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture. Ed. Bacon, Simon, and Bronk, Katarzyna. Oxford: Peter Lang AG, 2013.

Steven Piziks, "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy Magazine, Fall 1997. Fledgling is as much a thriller and vampire mystery as it is a book of ethical questions. We have Shori with superhuman powers, genetically altered, fighting against an unknown enemy that has massacred her family while also having to learn about her own society all over again without having her memory. It is a lot of fun at times, with super speed, healing powers, and a super sense of smell (though this felt a bit eye rolling at times, such as her smelling a helicopter before she could hear it or smelling week-old gunfire through the smoldering ruins of a village…its a big ask even for those willing to suspend disbelief for the sci-fi fun). The story eventually becomes a court room drama of sorts, with a massive vampire trial where the jury must hold powerful families with important legacies accountable while further murders are taking place during the trial like some sort of gothic John Grisham novel. It’s a fun read, and while some of it didn’t quite land for me, it does hit it’s marks in terms of thematic intent.that guy who wants to be President, that Jarret, he would call you all heathens or pagans or something […] He does seem to enjoy calling people things like that. Once he’s made everyone who isn’t like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn’t cause. That’s easier than trying to fix the problems.” kindred Shori wants to do more than survive. She wants to learn Ina history and travel the globe, to forge new alliances between humans and vampires. She wants to thrive, to throw herself into the wide, wild world. From Shori’s perspective her enemies deserve punishment, yes. But when the punishment is meted out more mildly than she wants, she moves on. Women Writing Sci-Fi: From Brave New Worlds ". YouTube. Clip from 1993 TV documentary Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon featuring Robert Silverberg, Karen Joy Fowler, and Octavia Butler discussing science fiction in the 1970s Robyn McGee, "Octavia Butler: Soul Sister of Science Fiction", Fireweed 73. Fall 2001, pp.60 and following.

In an interview with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman for Democracy Now!, Butler explained that she had written Fledgling as a diversion after becoming overwhelmed by the grimness of her Parable series. [17] To distract herself, she had read vampire fantasy novels, which tempted her to try writing one. As she explained in an interview with Allison Keyes, it took her a while to find the focus of the novel until a friend suggested that what vampires wanted, besides human blood, was the ability to walk in the sun. She then decided to create vampires as a separate species and have them engineer the capacity to withstand sunlight by adding human melanin to their DNA. [18]i122843551 |b31813003070066 |dbefic |g- |m231202 |h35 |x1 |t2 |i5 |j300 |k190215 |n05-31-2023 00:22 |o- |aFICTION BUTLER,O a b c d e f g h i j k Pfeiffer, John R. "Butler, Octavia Estelle (b. 1947)." in Richard Bleiler (ed.), Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, 2nd edn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 147–158. Charlie Rose, "A Conversation with Octavia Butler", Charlie Rose. 2000. [Two videos on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2.] Larry McCaffery and Jim McMenamin, "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", in Larry McCaffery (ed.), Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers, 1990. ISBN 978-0-252-06140-0, pp.54–70.