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Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 4 months ago

At first when I was reading Dawn, I was appalled at how Butler made a lot of the characters who were Awakened by Lilith try to attack her and each other. Although it was conflict for the story, I would like to […]
Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

Upon learning that Patternmaster is the first book that Octavia Butler wrote in the Patternist series, I immediately began to wonder what it would have been like if we had read the series in the order that Butler […]
Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 5 months ago

In class when we were discussing why Professor McCoy should like Patternmaster and then why she should dislike Patternmaster, a student made a comment about how the character Teray was based on Octavia Butler’s […]
Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

In the Patternist series, growth is a major concept. Although we haven’t read Patternmaster yet, so far each book in the series has an aspect about growth. In Wild Seed, the character Doro creates communities […]
Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 6 months ago

Doro is dead.

Doro is actually dead.

After four thousand years of living by taking others’ bodies and trying to build an empire, Doro finally met his match. He always thought that he would never die, that […]
Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction 11 years, 7 months ago

In Fledging, I found the concept of “symbionts” a little strange. Although symbionts love their Ina, I find that love to be somewhat false. Clearly, the feelings that exist between the symbiont and the Ina would […]

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