Hello dear readers, I hope you're well! July was a meaty reading month. We've got a recent prize winner, some salacious short stories and a netball legend. Let's dive in. One. Adulthood rites by Octavia E. Butler Butler is always a step ahead. While most sci fi writers are content to write about how humans would interact with aliens, Butler deals with that and then moves on to how humans would react once they started inter-breeding with aliens. The story follows on from Dawn which I read in May, which told the story of Lilith, the human chosen by the aliens to be the bridge between them and humanity. She has now had children, half-alien ones, and this story follows one of them as he/she/it tries to figure out who they are. It's mind-bending and arresting and thought-provoking in equal measure.
The Monthly Line: July 2023
The Monthly Line: July 2023
The Monthly Line: July 2023
Hello dear readers, I hope you're well! July was a meaty reading month. We've got a recent prize winner, some salacious short stories and a netball legend. Let's dive in. One. Adulthood rites by Octavia E. Butler Butler is always a step ahead. While most sci fi writers are content to write about how humans would interact with aliens, Butler deals with that and then moves on to how humans would react once they started inter-breeding with aliens. The story follows on from Dawn which I read in May, which told the story of Lilith, the human chosen by the aliens to be the bridge between them and humanity. She has now had children, half-alien ones, and this story follows one of them as he/she/it tries to figure out who they are. It's mind-bending and arresting and thought-provoking in equal measure.