We first read this one in 2006 at university and, well, it’s brilliant. It’s quite the disturbing concept and is about an inter-species relationship where humans are subservient to a somewhat benign clan known as the Tlic, who rely on the human body to reproduce (a process which can prove fatal, but always agonising, for the human). It promptly won the Hugo and Nebula awards when published with other short stories in 1995 – way to go, madam! This is a highly peculiar, rather unsettling short story first published in 1984 in Isaac Asimov’s literary magazine. American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler (1947 – 2006) won many prestigious literary awards for her writing, but today we’re going to focus on the short story which is her masterpiece: Bloodchild.
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