I like it a lot and taught both *Parable of the Sower* and the short story "Bloodchild" last semester. Most of her work is not hard sci-fi. She picks a set of circumstances (biological anomalies, time anomalies, different planetary settings, etc.) to explore primarily the ways that people treat each other as they are pushed to what they thought was their limit. "Bloodchild," for example, has humans inexplicably living as colonial subjects to an intelligent insect-like species that needs humans for reproduction. The story tests ideas of compelled closeness and familial responsibility. Much of her work has black women at the center, which is nice. *Kindred* is the novel most often taught in schools. Butler herself insisted that it wasn't sci-fi at all. The set-up is that the main character, a black woman married to a white man in 1976 finds herself transported to the pre-Civil War South where she has to contend with and insufferable white boy/man and has to offer him care.
I hope that helps. I wasn't sure exactly what you wanted to know. Tracy On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:46 AM, George Arterberry < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Noir, > > > Thoughts on her writings? > > > >
