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ATDrake · 10-23-2014, 12:36 PM

Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Oct 23rd) according to the newsletter, from Open Road Media in multiple stores (presumably North America-only since Hodder's Headline imprint has the rights to her works*, IIRC; couponable @ Kobo):

Bloodchild and Other Stories by the late Octavia E. Butler (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a multiple Hugo & Nebula Award-winner and one of the more important (and better quality!) modern sfnal writers. IIRC, I bought this collection a couple of years ago during one of ORM's Black Friday sales, but they seem to have changed the editions for some of their older titles, so the newer versions are in some way different and not linked to the ones you originally bought, so you might have to manually check your archives to see if you picked it up previously (

can't publishers just update in situ?!).

In any case, I highly recommend this, especially at this price (couponable!), which is probably less than half what I paid for it.

NB: despite the blurb saying that this has six stories, it actually contains 9 items (6 shorts + 1 novelette + 2 essays) and you can see the contents in its ISFDB entry, and includes 2 more stories than its original 1995 paper edition, if you happen to already own that.

Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Bloodchild,” winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. “Bloodchild” is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it is not. Also included is the Hugo Award–winning “Speech Sounds,” about a near future in which humans must adapt after an apocalyptic event robs them of their ability to speak.

In these pages, Butler shows us life on Earth and amongst the stars, telling her tales with characteristic imagination and clarity.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate.

* And are incidentally offering the title story free for UK account holders @ B&N UK, Amazon UK, Kobo (probably only available to the UK), and likely also iTunes & Google Play UK, which I can't easily check.

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ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Oct 23rd) according to the newsletter, from Open Road Media in multiple stores (presumably North America-only since Hodder's Headline imprint has the rights to her works, IIRC; couponable @ Kobo): Bloodchild and Other Stories* by the late Octavia E. Butler (ISFDB, Wikipedia), a multiple Hugo & Nebula Award-winner and one of the more important (and better quality!) modern sfnal writers. IIRC, I bought this collection a couple of years ago during one of ORM's Black Friday sales, but they seem to have changed the editions for some of their older titles, so the newer versions are in some way different and not linked to the ones you originally bought, so you might have to manually check your archives to see if you picked it up previously ( can't publishers just update in situ?!). In any case, I highly recommend this, especially at this price (couponable!), which is probably less than half what I paid for it. NB: despite the blurb saying that this has six stories, it actually contains 9 items (6 shorts + 1 novelette + 2 essays) and you can see the contents in its ISFDB entry, and includes 2 more stories than its original 1995 paper edition, if you happen to already own that. Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Bloodchild,” winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, anchors this collection of incomparable stories and essays. “Bloodchild” is set on a distant planet where human children spend their lives preparing to become hosts for the offspring of the alien Tlic. Sometimes the procedure is harmless, but often it is not. Also included is the Hugo Award–winning “Speech Sounds,” about a near future in which humans must adapt after an apocalyptic event robs them of their ability to speak. In these pages, Butler shows us life on Earth and amongst the stars, telling her tales with characteristic imagination and clarity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate. * And are incidentally offering the title story free for UK account holders @ B&N UK, Amazon UK, Kobo (probably only available to the UK), and likely also iTunes & Google Play UK, which I can't easily check. Last edited by ATDrake; 10-23-2014 at 12:51 PM. Reason: Remembered there was a consolation freebie for persons across the pond.