Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006, this is her last novel (2005).
Bought for $11 on February 16, 2022 to further my reading of this wonderful author. It will be her 7th novel that I’ve read since 2019.
Reading Feb. 20-24, 2022; and again for Zoom course with Nisi Shawl at the 92d Street Y on 9/7 and 9/14, 2023.
Another brilliant, enticing, meaty-but-tender, and exciting novel from Octavia Butler. So glad I found her when I retired.
The ethos and ethics suggests she’d been reading Heinlein.
A fantasy of another race, outsider and reviled, but much more ancient and much more powerful than humans,
A murder mystery involving mass murder to kill one person, and that person is the narrator, but also (to keep within the genre trope) the strangest hard boiled detective imaginable.
Full of small-scale humor, wry
