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* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'' (1976)

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* ''[[Literature/LilithsBrood Lilith's Brood]]''

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* ''[[Literature/LilithsBrood Lilith's Brood]]''''Literature/LilithsBrood'', aka ''Xenogenesis''
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an [[MisterSeahorse MPreg]] story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love". But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist: 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother). 2) He has been literally [[WifeHusbandry groomed from birth for this purpose]] by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and [[IncestIsRelative was herself hatched from his father]]). 3) He cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway. 4) He was so horrified by the cesarion-section-like "birth" process that another male went through (without anaesthetics) that he seriously considered killing himself rather than going through that himself. 5) He's being drugged into [[HappinessInSlavery uncaring submission]] on a regular basis all his life and got an extra large dose that day specifically to prepare him for the implanting. And 6) he primarily 'consented' in the end because the alien threatened to do it to his sister instead, which is still not freely given consent.[[note]]There is one brief line in the end where he admits that jealousy may have figured into his decision as well, but there's far more emphasis on his fear and horror and him being a better person than his older brother because he's not willing to use his siblings as a "shield" to save himself. And regarding the jealousy: Again, this boy was groomed by the alien from birth so he would develop feelings of "love" for her and he's being given mind-altering drugs again when the thought about jealousy occurs to him. Drugs that his mother is refusing to ingest, even though they made her much "happier" with her lot when she still did.[[/note]]

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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an [[MisterSeahorse MPreg]] story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love". But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist: 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother). 2) He has been literally [[WifeHusbandry groomed from birth for this purpose]] by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and [[IncestIsRelative [[BrotherSisterIncest was herself hatched from his father]]). 3) He cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway. 4) He was so horrified by the cesarion-section-like "birth" process that another male went through (without anaesthetics) that he seriously considered killing himself rather than going through that himself. 5) He's being drugged into [[HappinessInSlavery uncaring submission]] on a regular basis all his life and got an extra large dose that day specifically to prepare him for the implanting. And 6) he primarily 'consented' in the end because the alien threatened to do it to his sister instead, which is still not freely given consent.[[note]]There is one brief line in the end where he admits that jealousy may have figured into his decision as well, but there's far more emphasis on his fear and horror and him being a better person than his older brother because he's not willing to use his siblings as a "shield" to save himself. And regarding the jealousy: Again, this boy was groomed by the alien from birth so he would develop feelings of "love" for her and he's being given mind-altering drugs again when the thought about jealousy occurs to him. Drugs that his mother is refusing to ingest, even though they made her much "happier" with her lot when she still did.[[/note]]
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: She hinted before her death that she planned to continue her Hugo Award-winning two-volume ''[[Literature/ParableOfTheSower Parable]]'' series with several more titles, ''Parable of the Trickster'', ''Parable of the Chaos'', and ''Parable of the Clay''. However, she died shortly after publishing one more novel, an unrelated standalone called ''Literature/{{Fledgling}}'' whose ending also left room for a possible sequel.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: DiedDuringProduction: She hinted before her death that she planned to continue her Hugo Award-winning two-volume ''[[Literature/ParableOfTheSower Parable]]'' series with several more titles, ''Parable of the Trickster'', ''Parable of the Chaos'', and ''Parable of the Clay''. However, she died shortly after publishing one more novel, an unrelated standalone called ''Literature/{{Fledgling}}'' whose ending also left room for a possible sequel.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In ''Kindred'', the first sign that Dana has traveled through time as well as through space is Rufus' casual use of the N-word and his innocent confusion when Dana gets offended by it.
* DoubleConsciousness: In ''Kindred'', Dana is a 1970s black woman transported back to the antebellum south, where she has to masquerade as a slave, causing a lot of conflict between her 'liberated' self and the demeanor she has to adopt to survive as a slave.



* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: ''Kindred'' covers the perils of time traveling while black -- the black protagonist goes to 19th-century Maryland to meet her ancestors, one of whom is a white slave owner. Drama ensues.
* SanDimasTime: Whenever the protagonist of ''Kindred'' is dragged back in time to save Rufus, the time that passes in the present before her return is compressed but proportional to how long she spends in the past. When, for example, she spends a few minutes in the past, she disappears in the present for a mere second or two, but when she accidentally leaves her husband in the past, she spends three weeks in the present before going back and learning that her husband has been stranded for over five years.
* SpeculativeFiction: Her book ''Kindred'' is often seen as either {{science fiction}} (due to the TimeTravel, despite the fact that no explanation is ever given) or African-American fiction (because it's about American slavery), and thus LitFic. [[WordOfGod Butler]] herself [[TakeAThirdOption saw it]] as {{fantasy}}.
* YearInsideHourOutside: In ''Kindred'':
** Dana's flashbacks last anywhere from a day to eight months, but in the present she's only gone for a few hours at most.
** Kevin, her husband, gets left behind in the past. Dana spends a few weeks in the present waiting for a chance to go back and rescue him, and when she finally does, he's spent five years in the past.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an MPreg story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love". But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist: 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother). 2) He has been literally [[WifeHusbandry groomed from birth for this purpose]] by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and [[IncestIsRelative was herself hatched from his father]]). 3) He cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway. 4) He was so horrified by the cesarion-section-like "birth" process that another male went through (without anaesthetics) that he seriously considered killing himself rather than going through that himself. 5) He's being drugged into [[HappinessInSlavery uncaring submission]] on a regular basis all his life and got an extra large dose that day specifically to prepare him for the implanting. And 6) he primarily 'consented' in the end because the alien threatened to do it to his sister instead, which is still not freely given consent.[[note]]There is one brief line in the end where he admits that jealousy may have figured into his decision as well, but there's far more emphasis on his fear and horror and him being a better person than his older brother because he's not willing to use his siblings as a "shield" to save himself. And regarding the jealousy: Again, this boy was groomed by the alien from birth so he would develop feelings of "love" for her and he's being given mind-altering drugs again when the thought about jealousy occurs to him. Drugs that his mother is refusing to ingest, even though they made her much "happier" with her lot when she still did.[[/note]]

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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an MPreg [[MisterSeahorse MPreg]] story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love". But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist: 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother). 2) He has been literally [[WifeHusbandry groomed from birth for this purpose]] by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and [[IncestIsRelative was herself hatched from his father]]). 3) He cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway. 4) He was so horrified by the cesarion-section-like "birth" process that another male went through (without anaesthetics) that he seriously considered killing himself rather than going through that himself. 5) He's being drugged into [[HappinessInSlavery uncaring submission]] on a regular basis all his life and got an extra large dose that day specifically to prepare him for the implanting. And 6) he primarily 'consented' in the end because the alien threatened to do it to his sister instead, which is still not freely given consent.[[note]]There is one brief line in the end where he admits that jealousy may have figured into his decision as well, but there's far more emphasis on his fear and horror and him being a better person than his older brother because he's not willing to use his siblings as a "shield" to save himself. And regarding the jealousy: Again, this boy was groomed by the alien from birth so he would develop feelings of "love" for her and he's being given mind-altering drugs again when the thought about jealousy occurs to him. Drugs that his mother is refusing to ingest, even though they made her much "happier" with her lot when she still did.[[/note]]
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between
two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an MPreg story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love". But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother); 2) has been literally [[WifeHusbandry groomed from birth for this purpose]] by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and [[IncestIsRelative was herself hatched from his father]]); 3) he cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway; 4) he was so horrified by the cesarion-section-like "birth" process that another male went through (without anaesthetics) that he considered killing himself rather than going through that himself; 5) he's being drugged into [[HappinessInSlavery uncaring submission]] on a regular basis all his life and got an especially large dose that day specifically to prepare him for the implanting; and 6) he primarily agreed in the end because the alien threatened to do it to his sister instead.[[note]]There is one brief line where he mentions that jealousy may have figured into his decision as well, but there's far more emphasis on his fear and horror and him being a better person than his older brother because he's not willing to use his siblings as a "shield" to save himself. And regarding the jealousy: Again, this boy was groomed and drugged by the alien from birth so he would develop feelings of "love" for her.[[/note]] The author also writes that she it "amazes [her] that some people have seen “Bloodchild” as a story of slavery" - in a story where the humans have to live in a "Preserve" and aren't allowed to own firearms or cars, have been treated literally like cattle in the past, there are constant references to ownership/selling of people, being held in the alien's limbs is always described as "caging," and the aliens are constantly worrying about their human's body weight, like they're purposefully fattening them up.

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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between
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The author also writes that she it "amazes [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic "it amazes [her] that some people have seen “Bloodchild” as a story of slavery" slavery"]] - in about a story where the humans have to live in a "Preserve" and aren't allowed to own firearms or cars, cars; have been treated literally like cattle in the past, past; there are constant several references to ownership/selling of people, people and splitting up families at the convenience of the owners; being held in the alien's limbs is always described as "caging," "caging", and the aliens are constantly worrying about their human's body weight, weight; like they're purposefully fattening them up.up, etc.
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** DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale (...or possibly TrollingCreator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between
two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an MPreg story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love". But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother); 2) has been literally [[WifeHusbandry groomed from birth for this purpose]] by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and [[IncestIsRelative was herself hatched from his father]]); 3) he cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway; 4) he was so horrified by the cesarion-section-like "birth" process that another male went through (without anaesthetics) that he considered killing himself rather than going through that himself; 5) he's being drugged into [[HappinessInSlavery uncaring submission]] on a regular basis all his life and got an especially large dose that day specifically to prepare him for the implanting; and 6) he primarily agreed in the end because the alien threatened to do it to his sister instead.[[note]]There is one brief line where he mentions that jealousy may have figured into his decision as well, but there's far more emphasis on his fear and horror and him being a better person than his older brother because he's not willing to use his siblings as a "shield" to save himself. And regarding the jealousy: Again, this boy was groomed and drugged by the alien from birth so he would develop feelings of "love" for her.[[/note]] The author also writes that she it "amazes [her] that some people have seen “Bloodchild” as a story of slavery" - in a story where the humans have to live in a "Preserve" and aren't allowed to own firearms or cars, have been treated literally like cattle in the past, there are constant references to ownership/selling of people, being held in the alien's limbs is always described as "caging," and the aliens are constantly worrying about their human's body weight, like they're purposefully fattening them up.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: She hinted before her death that she planned to continue her Hugo Award-winning two-volume ''[[Literature/ParableOfTheSower Parable]]'' series with several more titles, ''Parable of the Trickster'', ''Parable of the Chaos'', and ''Parable of the Clay''. However, she died shortly after publishing one more novel, an unrelated standalone called ''Literature/{{Fledgling}}'' whose ending also left room for a possible sequel.
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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction writer, and probably the best-known (or in a lot of cases, the only known) African-American in that field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. Her first published book was ''Patternmaster'' in 1976. Other works of hers include ''Lilith's Brood'' and the ''Parable'' series, and her final book, ''Fledgling''. She was working on a third book in the ''Parable'' series when she died of a stroke in 2006, aged 58.

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Octavia E. Estelle Butler (1947-2006) (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, and probably the best-known (or in a lot of cases, the only known) African-American in that field. She won both Hugo [[UsefulNotes/HugoAward Hugo]] and Nebula awards. [[UsefulNotes/NebulaAward Nebula]] awards in her lifetime.

Her first published book was ''Patternmaster'' in 1976. Other works of hers include ''Lilith's Brood'' and the ''Parable'' series, and her final book, ''Fledgling''. She was working on a third book in the ''Parable'' series when she died of a stroke in 2006, aged 58.
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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction writer, and probably the best-known (or in a lot of cases, the only known) African-American in that field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. Her first published book was ''Patternmaster'' in 1976. Other works of hers include ''Lilith's Brood'' and the ''Parable'' series, and her final book, ''Fledgling''. She was working on a third book in the ''Parable'' series when she died of a stroke in 2006, aged 58.

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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction writer, and probably the best-known (or in a lot of cases, the only known) African-American in that field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. Her first published book was ''Patternmaster'' in 1976. Other works of hers include ''Lilith's Brood'' and the ''Parable'' series, and her final book, ''Fledgling''. She was working on a third book in the ''Parable'' series when she died of a stroke in 2006, aged 58.
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* {{Afrofuturism}}: Most of her works feature black people and themes related to the black struggle in America.
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* SpeculativeFiction: Her book ''Kindred'' is often seen as either {{science fiction}} (due to the TimeTravel, despite the fact that no explanation is ever given) or African-American fiction (because it's about an African-American, and thus LitFic). [[WordOfGod Butler]] herself [[TakeAThirdOption saw it]] as {{fantasy}}.

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* SpeculativeFiction: Her book ''Kindred'' is often seen as either {{science fiction}} (due to the TimeTravel, despite the fact that no explanation is ever given) or African-American fiction (because it's about an African-American, American slavery), and thus LitFic).LitFic. [[WordOfGod Butler]] herself [[TakeAThirdOption saw it]] as {{fantasy}}.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In ''Kindred'', the first sign that Dana has traveled through time as well as through space is Rufus' casual use of the N-word and his innocent confusion when Dana gets offended by it.
* DoubleConsciousness: In ''Kindred'', Dana is a 1970s black woman transported back to the antebellum south, where she has to masquerade as a slave, causing a lot of conflict between her 'liberated' self and the demeanor she has to adopt to survive as a slave.
* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: In ''Bloodchild'', human hosts (almost always male) act as incubators for eggs of the female aliens, who look something like human-size centipedes. If the host is lucky, the mother gets to him in time to extract the newly hatched larvae before they eat their way out. This relationship is presented as approaching symbiotic; the aliens (mostly) cherish the human families from whom they select their hosts, but the hosts don't get a lot of choice in the matter.
* FirstContactFauxPas:
** ''Bloodchild'' features the T'lic treating humans as cattle before realizing it's not a very sustainable method of hosting their young safely.
** ''Amnesty'' features the Communities kidnapping individuals and attempting to experiment/communicate with them, but abusing them due to a lack of understanding.
* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: ''Kindred'' covers the perils of time traveling while black -- the black protagonist goes to 19th-century Maryland to meet her ancestors, one of whom is a white slave owner. Drama ensues.
* SanDimasTime: Whenever the protagonist of ''Kindred'' is dragged back in time to save Rufus, the time that passes in the present before her return is compressed but proportional to how long she spends in the past. When, for example, she spends a few minutes in the past, she disappears in the present for a mere second or two, but when she accidentally leaves her husband in the past, she spends three weeks in the present before going back and learning that her husband has been stranded for over five years.


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* YearInsideHourOutside: In ''Kindred'':
** Dana's flashbacks last anywhere from a day to eight months, but in the present she's only gone for a few hours at most.
** Kevin, her husband, gets left behind in the past. Dana spends a few weeks in the present waiting for a chance to go back and rescue him, and when she finally does, he's spent five years in the past.
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* OldShame: ''Survivor'', which was intentionally not reprinted.
--> "When I was young, a lot of people wrote about going to another world and finding either little green men or little brown men, and they were always less in some way. They were a little sly, or a little like "the natives" in a very bad, old movie. And I thought, "No way. Apart from all these human beings populating the galaxy, this is really offensive garbage." People ask me why I don't like ''Survivor'', my third novel. And it's because it feels a little bit like that. Some humans go up to another world, and immediately begin mating with the aliens and having children with them. I think of it as my StarTrek novel." [[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/11664/ quote]]
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: She died before completing a third book in the ''Parable'' series. Her last completed book, ''Literature/{{Fledgling}}'', also left room for a sequel.
* HumansAreWhite: Her books avert this.
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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction writer, and probably the best-known (or in a lot of cases, the only known) African-American in that field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. Her first published book was ''Patternmaster'' in 1976. Other works of hers include ''Lilith's Brood'' and the ''Parable'' series, and her final book, ''Fledgling''. She was working on a third book in the ''Parable'' series when she died of a stroke in 2006, aged 58.

!!Works:
* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'' (1976)
** ''Mind of My Mind'' (1977)
** ''Survivor'' (1978)
** ''Wild Seed'' (1980)
** ''Clay's Ark'' (1984)
* ''Kindred'' (1979)
* ''[[Literature/LilithsBrood Lilith's Brood]]''
** ''Dawn'' (1987)
** ''Adulthood Rites'' (1988)
** ''Imago'' (1989)
* ''Literature/ParableOfTheSower'' (1993)
** ''Parable of the Talents'' (1998)
* ''Literature/{{Fledgling}}'' (2005)

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: She died before completing a third book in the ''Parable'' series. Her last completed book, ''Literature/{{Fledgling}}'', also left room for a sequel.
* HumansAreWhite: Her books avert this.
* SpeculativeFiction: Her book ''Kindred'' is often seen as either {{science fiction}} (due to the TimeTravel, despite the fact that no explanation is ever given) or African-American fiction (because it's about an African-American, and thus LitFic). [[WordOfGod Butler]] herself [[TakeAThirdOption saw it]] as {{fantasy}}.
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