Bloodchild | Critical Overview
In 1982, early in Butler’s career, black feminist scholar Francis Foster Smith summed up her critical reputation in Extrapolation: ‘‘Reviewers consider her a speculative fiction writer who is adequate, potentially outstanding, but at present neither particularly innovative nor interesting. However, Octavia Butler is not just another woman science fiction writer. Her major characters are black women, and through her characters and through the structure of her imagined social order, Butler consciously explores the impact of race and sex upon future society.’’ Since then,...
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