3) He cannot legally leave the "Preserve" and would be in even more danger outside anyway. 2) He has been literally groomed from birth for this purpose by the female alien (who is acting like a member of his family and was herself hatched from his father). But in the actual story, the impregnated protagonist: 1) is a young boy barely entering adolescence (no concrete age is given, but he's clearly still much smaller than his older brother). Double Standard Rape: Female on Male (.or possibly Trolling Creator): In the afterword to this short story, the author writes that it's "a love story between two very different beings" and that she wanted to write an MPreg story where the guy became pregnant "not because he was forced to" but rather "as an act of love".This relationship is presented as approaching symbiotic the aliens (mostly) cherish the human families from whom they select their hosts, but the hosts don't get a lot of choice in the matter. If the host is lucky, the mother gets to him in time to extract the newly hatched larvae before they eat their way out. Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong: In Bloodchild, human hosts (almost always male) act as incubators for eggs of the female aliens, who look something like human-size centipedes.However, she died shortly after publishing one more novel, an unrelated standalone called Fledgling whose ending also left room for a possible sequel. Died During Production: She hinted before her death that she planned to continue her Hugo Award-winning two-volume Parable series with several more titles, Parable of the Trickster, Parable of the Chaos, and Parable of the Clay.Afrofuturism: Most of her works feature black people and themes related to the black struggle in America.Trope examples relating to works that don't have their own pages: She was working on a third book in the Parable series when she died of a stroke in 2006, aged 58. Other works of hers include Lilith's Brood and the Parable series, and her final book, Fledgling. Her first published book was Patternmaster in 1976. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards in her lifetime. Octavia Estelle Butler (J– February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, and probably the best-known (or in a lot of cases, the only known) African-American in that field.
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