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Bloodchildren:

Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars

Edited by Nisi Shawl

January 22, 2013

ISBN 978-1-61138-237-2

Copyright © 2013 Carl Brandon Society

Table of Contents

Nalo Hopkinson —

Before Conception

Octavia E. Butler —

Vonda N. McIntyre —

2007

Christopher Caldwell —

Shweta Narayan —

2008

Caren Gussoff —

Mary Elizabeth Burroughs —

2009

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz —

2010

Kai Ashante Wilson — “

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Erik Owomoyela —

2011

Jeremy Sim —

Introduction

Nalo Hopkinson

The library’s interlibrary loan process came to the rescue. I knew that loans from outside the North York Public Library system, where I worked, had a cost attached, but hey; I was also a tax-paying library patron. I put in requests to have the books delivered to my library branch.

Octavia’s books were among the first to show up; Patternmaster, Survivor, Mind of My Mind , and Wild Seed . Understand that in order to even do the search, I’d had to postulate that more than one black SF/F author existed.

I’d had to infer the existence of the creature from the empty outline created around it in the canon. (I would after that ask myself where the other writers of color were, and go on to look for Asian, South Asian, First Nations, etc. writers. ) But I was well-placed to assume the existence of something I’d never even heard tell of. After all, my birth region of the Caribbean has had a vibrant literary tradition for centuries now, despite the fact that lots of people think that the Caribbean’s charms are limited to sun, sand, rum, male prostitutes catering to the tourist trade, and really good marijuana. My own father was part of that literary tradition.