The Evening and the Morning and the Night [short fiction]
by Octavia E. Butler
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"I began the story wondering how much of what we do is encouraged, discouraged, or otherwise guided by what we are genetically," Butler writes. And she does that beautifully, hauntingly in this short piece. I am a big fan. Haven't read her in a while (since The Parable of the Sower and the Parable of the Talents many years ago). This reminds me of why I am a big fan. I'll be exploring more of her early novels (The Patternist series; Lilith's Brood...)
I wrote this comment:
"Reading Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" reminds me of wistfully watching episodes of Criminal Minds as I eat, envying the members of the BAU weathering the storms of their work as though they were a family. Wishing I could be offered a job where I was needed, and only I could do the work that needed to be done.
Knowing that I belonged, that I fit. "
back on 26 July, 2013 (which was MEOW Date 7 August, 12013 H.E.) and I no longer recall why I made this comment, but I recall enjoying this book enough to mention it in my journal.
Love, Peace, and Cooperation,
Shira
"Reading Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" reminds me of wistfully watching episodes of Criminal Minds as I eat, envying the members of the BAU weathering the storms of their work as though they were a family. Wishing I could be offered a job where I was needed, and only I could do the work that needed to be done.
Knowing that I belonged, that I fit. "
back on 26 July, 2013 (which was MEOW Date 7 August, 12013 H.E.) and I no longer recall why I made this comment, but I recall enjoying this book enough to mention it in my journal.
Love, Peace, and Cooperation,
Shira
I wrote this comment:
"Reading Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" reminds me of wistfully watching episodes of Criminal Minds as I eat, envying the members of the BAU weathering the storms of their work as though they were a family. Wishing I could be offered a job where I was needed, and only I could do the work that needed to be done.
Knowing that I belonged, that I fit. "
back on 26 July, 2013 (which was MEOW Date 7 August, 12013 H.E.) and I no longer recall why I made this comment, but I recall enjoying this book enough to mention it in my journal.
Love, Peace, and Cooperation,
Shira
"Reading Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" reminds me of wistfully watching episodes of Criminal Minds as I eat, envying the members of the BAU weathering the storms of their work as though they were a family. Wishing I could be offered a job where I was needed, and only I could do the work that needed to be done.
Knowing that I belonged, that I fit. "
back on 26 July, 2013 (which was MEOW Date 7 August, 12013 H.E.) and I no longer recall why I made this comment, but I recall enjoying this book enough to mention it in my journal.
Love, Peace, and Cooperation,
Shira
I wrote this comment:
"Reading Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" reminds me of wistfully watching episodes of Criminal Minds as I eat, envying the members of the BAU weathering the storms of their work as though they were a family. Wishing I could be offered a job where I was needed, and only I could do the work that needed to be done.
Knowing that I belonged, that I fit. "
back on 26 July, 2013 (which was MEOW Date 7 August, 12013 H.E.) and I no longer recall why I made this comment, but I recall enjoying this book enough to mention it in my journal.
Love, Peace, and Cooperation,
Shira
"Reading Octavia Butler's "The evening and the morning and the night" reminds me of wistfully watching episodes of Criminal Minds as I eat, envying the members of the BAU weathering the storms of their work as though they were a family. Wishing I could be offered a job where I was needed, and only I could do the work that needed to be done.
Knowing that I belonged, that I fit. "
back on 26 July, 2013 (which was MEOW Date 7 August, 12013 H.E.) and I no longer recall why I made this comment, but I recall enjoying this book enough to mention it in my journal.
Love, Peace, and Cooperation,
Shira
This is a single story about a young woman, then a young couple, dealing with a horrific congenital disease.
Nominated for 1987 Nebula Novelette Award.
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Science-fiction writer and novelist Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She earned as Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in 1968 and later attended California State University and the University of California. Her first novel, Patternmaster, was the first in a series about a society run by a show more group of telepaths who are mentally linked to one another. She explored the topics of race, poverty, politics, religion, and human nature in her works. She won a Hugo Award in 1984 for her short story Speech Sounds and a Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 1985 for her novella Bloodchild. She received a MacArthur Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The award pays $295,000 over a five-year period to creative people who push the boundaries of their fields. She died in Lake Forest Park, Washington on February 24, 2006 at the age of 58. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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