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Octavia's Rollercoaster!,
By Unfortunately for us, her fans, Ms. Butler has recently passed leaving the "Parable" trilogy unfinished and I'm sure many delightful stories unwritten. She was highly talented writer and win Sci-Fi Hugo and Nebula awards. All her books showed a rich mixture of imagination, complex and interesting characters and conflictive situations to test their mettle. Here the reader is presented with Octavia's short stories. She proves to be as good as with her novels, even if she states she is not a "short story writer". There are five tales and two essays. The essays provide good hints for "would be writers". The multi-awarded "Bloodchild" is a typically Butler's product. She explores in depth, in a quite short text, the intricacies of symbiosis between human and alien specie. I think that from this story, Octavia has derived her amazing trilogy "Xenogenesis". Both stories refer to symbiosis and how this affects human mind producing very different attitudes from rejection to uncensored adhesion. The other remarkable tale is "Speech Sounds" that shows a post apocalyptic world where humanity is deprived of speech or the ability of read and write. She focuses on the strain survivors suffer to adapt to these conditions. The inner suffering and the will to survive are shown without respite. "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" reflects the anguish endured by a woman that knows she will be devastated by a new disease. This book is a very good introduction to Ms. Butler's universe. Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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