Problem
Octavia Butler "Bloodchild"
This story is only science fiction story we will read this semester. Although "The Era" takes place in a future society, it is essentially a picture of the near future and therefore might fit this genre, this story is entirely in another time, another planet and sets a completely different world in play. Butler is known as the "mother of African American Science Fiction and her work is celebrated extensively. After you figure out this strange enviroment, what do you think are some of themes she is working with?