Year's Best SF 9
AmnestyOctavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler lives in the Seattle, Washington area. She
grew up in California and attended courses in SF writing
taught by Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon, and the
Clarion SF Writing workshop. After years of work, culminating
in the early 1980s with two exceptional novels, Kindred
and Wild Seed, her career began to peak. She won the
1984 Hugo Award for the short story "Speech Sounds." Her
story "Bloodchild," about human male slaves who incubate
their alien masters' eggs, won the 1985 Hugo Award and the
Nebula Award, and both are collected in Bloodchild and
Other Stories (1995). Then, in 1995, she was awarded a
McArthur Grant, a large cash prize often called the "genius
grant," given annually in the arts and sciences, which
brought her worldwide notice. She also entered a new, strong
phase of her career with the novel Parable of the Sower. Her
early stories are collected in Bloodchild. She is now certainly
one of the notable figures in the SF field and one of
our leading writers.
"Amnesty" was published electronically at SciFiction, the
SCIFI website, which is now the highest paying market
for SF and fantasy and so had some of the very best short
fiction in 2003. It is ... read full excerpt from Year's Best SF 9 ebook
