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Bloodline

Bloodline

General Fiction

(us) Octavia E. Butler

190K0

Fantasy × History × Thriller. In 1976, on her 26th birthday, Dana, a black woman, inexplicably traveled back from Los Angeles to a Maryland plantation a century ago, and rescued Rufus, a white boy who was dying from drowning. After that, she experienced several time travels, each time going back to the past when Rufus was in danger, and then back to the present when she was in danger. While traveling through time and again, Dana discovers a shocking fact - the slave owner Rufus is actually her ancestor, and her family is actually the product of rape. Do you want to save Rufus next time? Do you want to save a beast that enslaves and rapes your own people, or do you want to completely erase the possibility of your own existence? When the heavy history whips the real and illusory bodies, leaving bloody marks, how should a modern independent woman survive in the cruel history, or not?

Blood Child

Blood Child

General Fiction

(us) Octavia E. Butler

92K03

Science fiction × suspense × horror. Seven grotesque, bloody, ferocious and curious visions of the future, a feast for the senses that involves peeling off skin, sucking bones, and disemboweling the body. There are women who control everything and are dominated by desire, and there are men who sacrifice their bodies for love and are willing to become the other. Gender reversal, apocalyptic plague, alien invasion, pheromone control... Many science fiction settings like thought experiments reflect the real situation of marginalized people through flipping and deformation. When human beings lose control of their bodies, and when the language system that is regarded as a symbol of civilization completely collapses, is it necessary to regain control or abandon self-centeredness and accept more advanced intelligent life? By witnessing disaster, fear, oppression, and injustice, hidden corners are illuminated and different paths of survival are explored.