ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Pasadena, California, U.S.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bloodchild was first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine in 1984. Written by Octavia Butler, it is a story of alien encounters about love and power. The setting is pure dystopia, with the humans on an alien planet, living on a preserve, a large enclosed community from which they cannot escape.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Bloodchild” is a science fiction story where humans, living on an alien planet, are trafficked and used as breeders to carry Tlic babies. The Tlic mother implants her eggs into a host animal (or human), and they later hatch inside the host’s body, which is cut open to retrieve the offspring.

Detailed explanation-4: -Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, women’s rights, and political disparity.