Bloodchild is a short story by Octavia Butler. It's a sort of grim and disturbing sci-fi story that takes place on a distant planet where humans are essentially slaves to the race of bug like creatures that inhabit the planet. The thing that disturbed me the most would be the compromise that was established between the two races. The humans would allow themselves to be hosts for their parasitic reproduction. Even more odd, human males were the best hosts for the job.
I didn't dislike the story but I also didn't particularly enjoy it either. It brought some interesting ideas to the genre, but being the type of person that is cursed with producing mental images involuntarily made enjoying this story slightly difficult.
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