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Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 3 months ago

While thinking about reflections about English 458 I pondered about Butler’s identity a lot. Octavia Butler is a black, female, Sci-Fi writer, which all together creates a unique prose within her writing. […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

While reading Butler’s short story Amnesty I kept seeing conflicts with experimenting on the human body and consent. Noah the protagonist of the story is kidnapped and experimented by aliens. Noah discusses the […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

Reading the afterword in Bloodchild made me evaluate all the interpretations that lie within the short story. Butler discusses the three levels of her story which are love, coming of age, and being a pregnant man. […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

As I was reading Madhu Dubey’s “Octavia Butler’s Novels of Enslavement” article I started to think about our own society. The article discusses chattel slavery in comparison to Butler’s plot in her Pattern […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

As we discussed Clay’s Ark in class yesterday I kept thinking about similar plots structures. This led me to look up films about viral outbreaks. Most outbreak films such as Contagion often portray people dying of […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

The ending of Mind of My Mind was epic. Doro is finally killed in a battle with Mary. We assume Doro has the upper hand, but soon we realized that his imminent downfall has come. Not only have Doro’s fears of Mary […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

One of the questions Locke discusses in Second Treatise of Government is “how any one should ever come to have a property in any thing,” which brought my attention to Butler’s notions of property within Fledgling. […]
Alex Calderon wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 7 months ago

While I read some of the questions asked in Conversations with Octavia Butler. One question that piqued my interest was on defining Fledging as a genre. The Interviewer asked this to Butler:” I’ve seen Fledgling […]

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