Week 12: Diverse Position Science Fiction


I've read Blood child by Octavia E. Butler, and I think it's not just a story of slavery, it's also a story of love and growth. On another level, Blood child is her "male pregnancy story" and "rent-paying story," as members of the isolated space colony need to "live together in unusual ways" with their hosts. When I read this article, In the fantasy of what the egg looks like, it will not be very disgusting. Maggots rely on parasitic animals to produce their eggs, inject them into humans, then take them out and put them into other animals after the larvae have grown a bit (otherwise they would be eaten alive by the larvae). In this twisted form of reproduction, maggots form families with humans. The male master was selected as the breeder by maggots, and even after witnessing the horrors of other breeders, he accepted the reality.

When it comes to the relationship between the two parties, I personally believe that at least part of it is affection, the sense of familiarity and the relative security and trust it brings, the environmental and family educational factors of dependence and dependence, and the relationship of interests (Tillick provides the egg, namely life span and pleasure). Tillick is in a special position for the main character's family, and this positioning can also affect people's feelings.

This is a very creative short story. I like it very much.

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