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Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler

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phillyhufflepunk's review against another edition

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dark hopeful sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Winner of the Hugo Award, this science fiction short story does a lot in a very short amount of time. 

It was also written in the 1980s by that rare and wonderful unicorn that terrifies immature sci-fi nerd boys - a woman. So, you know...bonus.

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Who am I? I am a forty-seven-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. I am also comfortably asocial—a hermit. ... A pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive."
—Octavia E. Butler



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ssuummeerrn's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Oh wow! This one was even better than The Evening and The Morning and The Night! Octavia E. Butler is masterful with her short stories! I loved this one and can’t wait to write my paper on it! It is mind blowing to me how Butler can give such a beautiful character arc and such an intricate plot within only 20 pages! 

I’ve bought Parable of the Sower, one of her longer books, and I can’t wait to read it!
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