Fledgling: Octavia E. Butler's extraordinary final novel

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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. This was a bit of vampire theater. I knew it, and I was fairly sure she knew it, too. She had probably been brushing up on vampires recently. Of course, I didn’t need permission to enter her home or anyone else’s.

Written during a creatively fallow period in Butler’s life, Fledgling was the author’s attempt to “do something that was more lightweight,” as she said in a 2005 interview. Ironically, the resulting novel, now being reissued, might be one of her most profound and emotionally acute. The early days of the pandemic revealed the depths of our mutual dependence: Not only did the coronavirus require unprecedented levels of global cooperation to temper its spread; it also forced people, at a basic level, to recognize their linked fates. Shori’s arc feels especially prescient in this moment, as society continues reeducating itself about boundaries, agency, and the true stakes of living together. Her 1998 follow-up novel, Parable of the Talents, is set sometime after Lauren's death and is told through the excerpts of Lauren's journals as framed by the commentary of her estranged daughter, Larkin. [7] It details the invasion of Acorn by right-wing fundamentalist Christians, Lauren's attempts to survive their religious "re-education", and the final triumph of Earthseed as a community and a doctrine. [23] [30] Davis, Marcia (February 28, 2006). "Octavia Butler, A Lonely, Bright Star Of the Sci-Fi Universe". The Washington Post' . The memorial scholarships sponsored by the Carl Brandon Society and Pasadena City College help fulfill three of the life goals Butler had handwritten in a notebook from 1988: [95] [96]

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Ayana Jamieson (June 22, 2017). "Mining the Archive of Octavia E. Butler" . Retrieved November 9, 2020. Human beings are more alike than different—damn sure more alike than we like to admit. I wonder if the same thing wouldn’t have happened eventually, no matter which two cultures gained the ability to wipe one another out along with the rest of the world.” Adulthood Rites Under the Radar 2015: Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower: The Concert Version", The New York Times. January 18, 2015. Dubey, Madhu. "Octavia Butler's Novels of Enslavement." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 46.3 (2013): 345–363. I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”

Rosalie G. Harrison, "Sci-Fi Visions: An Interview with Octavia Butler", Equal Opportunity Forum Magazine, February 8, 1980, pp.30–34. The Pasadena City College Foundation". pasadena.edu. Pasadena City College. 2019. Archived from the original on July 8, 2019 . Retrieved April 5, 2019. 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.Mostly, however, I liked the book fine. Any major issues I have can be neatly summed up in my opinion on quasi-pedophile literature in general. It's designed to make us squirm. If it doesn't make you squirm then maybe you're reading just a tad too much pedo-literature. Suffice to say, I squirmed a lot. I tried telling myself over and over that a 53-year-old vampire with amnesia with the body of an eleven-year-old girl should be judged on the stated facts alone, not by the super-creepy visceral feel it evokes. Ritch, Calvin (2008). "An Octavia E. Butler Bibliography (1976–2008)". Utopian Studies. 19 (3): 485–516. doi: 10.5325/utopianstudies.19.3.0485. JSTOR 20719922. S2CID 150357898.

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