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Bloodchild

Octavia E. Butler

First published June 1984
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1985 Hugo Award Best Novelette Winner
1985 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Winner
1985 Nebula Award Novelette Winner
1985 SF Chronicle Award Novelette Winner
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novelette Nominee/Finalist

Publications (41)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1984 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1984 Davis Publications MAGAZINE 34
April 1985 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology 63
April 1985 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection Bluejay Books Anthology 64
June 1985 The 1985 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books Anthology 246
June 1985 The 1985 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 246
July 1985 Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year Tor Anthology 258
September 1985 The 1985 Annual World's Best SF DAW Books / SFBC Anthology 193
October 1985 Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 Gollancz Anthology 258
October 1985 Best Science Fiction of the Year 14 Gollancz Anthology
November 1985 Nebula Awards 20 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 16
November 1985 Nebula Awards 20 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Anthology 16
1988 Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 499
February 1988 The Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Ace Books Anthology 238
December 1989 The New Hugo Winners: Award-Winning Science Fiction Stories Wynwood Press Anthology 278
May 1990 The New Hugo Winners Wynwood / SFBC Anthology 278
September 1991 The New Hugo Winners Baen Books Anthology 278
December 1993 Invaders! Ace Books Anthology 1
November 1994 Visions of Fear Tor Anthology 173
July 1995 Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s Harvest / Harcourt Brace Anthology 123
August 1995 Bloodchild and Other Stories Four Walls Eight Windows Collection 1
November 1996 Bloodchild and Other Stories Seven Stories Press Collection 1
July 2000 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 1035
May 2001 Bloodchild and Other Stories G. K. Hall & Co. Collection
2003 The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Prentice-Hall Anthology 1035
July 2004 The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Fantasy and Science Fiction Voyager / HarperCollins (Australia) Anthology 221
October 2005 Bloodchild and Other Stories, Second Edition Seven Stories Press Collection 1
December 2008 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 119
January 2011 Bloodchild and Other Stories, Second Edition Seven Stories Press Collection |1
June 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |193
October 2011 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Corvus Anthology
December 2011 Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction Wildside Press Anthology |193
May 2012 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Tor Anthology 630
May 2012 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Tor / SFBC Anthology 630
May 2012 The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories Tor Anthology 630
July 2012 Bloodchild and Other Stories Open Road Integrated Media Collection |1
March 2013 Invaders! Baen Books Anthology
March 2014 Bloodchild Headline Chapbook
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 755
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |72
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime/Black Lizard / SFBC Anthology 755
January 2021 Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories The Library of America Omnibus 620