Aug 12, 2022

Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler (2014) Open Road Media.

Two very well written science fiction stories.  The first, “A Necessary Being” about a face on another world, one tribe coming to its end, the other fearful that they are at their end.  Communication is supplemented by a chameleon-like ability to display color, limited by the person’s caste.  The other story, “Childfinder” is about attempted protection of pre-psi children.  Both are satisfying.

This was published posthumously.  "Childfinder" was originally sold to Harlan Ellison for his Last Dangerous Visions project but that was not published before Ellison died in 2018.  There is an existing project to publish three volumes of Last Dangerous Vision in 2024 by Blackstone Publishers.

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