At the beginning, the reader joins Shori as she is recovering from an attack that gives her amnesia. The Fledgling is a novel by Octavia Butler that is centered around a vampire that, as a result of a head injury, has almost no memory of who or what she is. Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2021 Butler Scholars they co-edited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Honors include the World Fantasy and Solstice awards. Shawl edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. A friend of Octavia’s during her Seattle years, Nisi Shawl is a founder of the diversity-in-speculative-fiction nonprofit The Carl Brandon Society. For years the only African-American woman writing science fiction, Butler has encouraged many others to follow in her path. She reached readers of all ages, all races, and all religious and sexual persuasions. A 1995 MacArthur Award winner, Butler transcended the science fiction category even as she was awarded that community’s top prizes, the Nebula and Hugo Awards. BUTLER (1947–2006) is recognized as among the bravest and smartest of contemporary fiction writers. A writer who darkly imagined the future we have destined for ourselves in book after book, and also one who has shown us the way toward improving on that dismal fate, OCTAVIA E.
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