Where's a good place to start with Octavia Butler? I've never read her, and I should fix that.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Nov 26, 2012 8:18:04 am PST #20121 of 28743
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Connie Neil - Nov 26, 2012 9:29:45 am PST #20122 of 28743
brillig
Crap, I'm utterly broke and I don't have a Kindle.
Kate P. - Nov 26, 2012 10:09:22 am PST #20123 of 28743
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
-t, I've read both Parable of the Sower and Kindred, and they're both excellent (and very different from each other).
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2012 10:23:10 am PST #20124 of 28743
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kindred is a great book, but it stands on its own. Apart from Fledgling (which I do not recommend--I found it skeevy and I can't help but wonder if that's the final version, or she had more to do before she died (doubtlessly that's all wishful thinking, because I love all the rest of her stuff, and I hate this, and I just want something not-her to blame)) the rest of her works take place in 2 (3?) shared universes.
- Patternist: Patternmaster, Mind of my Mind, Survivor, Wild Seed, Clay's Ark
- Parable: Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents
- Xenogenesis (so, 3, then): Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago
I think I liked Xenogenesis the most, but they're all good--pick any start of a series.
Kate P. - Nov 26, 2012 10:30:30 am PST #20125 of 28743
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, there's also Bloodchild, a story collection. I remember loving that one too.
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2012 10:36:30 am PST #20126 of 28743
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes--sorry. I was in novel mode. Are all her stories in Bloodchild?
Kate P. - Nov 26, 2012 10:40:57 am PST #20127 of 28743
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I don't know. It's the only story collection of hers that I'm aware of, but I have no idea if she has other stories floating around.
hippocampus - Nov 26, 2012 11:02:52 am PST #20128 of 28743
not your mom's socks.
"The Evening, The Morning, and the Night" isn't in Bloodchild. It's in the Best of Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction and a few other anthos. Don't know if it's collected.
-t - Nov 26, 2012 11:23:37 am PST #20129 of 28743
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Excellent, thank you!
Dana - Nov 26, 2012 6:57:22 pm PST #20130 of 28743
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Augh, I want to buy the Sayers, except I don't think I need them all, but then which ones do I choose? It's not like I'm going to get rid of my paper copies, so then it's only for convenience...
I could get Gaudy Night, Have His Carcasse, and Busman's Honeymoon. And Murder Must Advertise. And The Nine Tailors. Oh, shit, and Strong Poison.