@booklet {9506, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Evening and the Morning and the Night{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omni Magazine}, volume = {9.8}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback $\#$ 38. Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 33-84 with an \“Afterword\” on 85; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 171-95 with the \“Afterword\” on 195-96; in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 200-18; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 642-667, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772-773).

}, month = {May 1987}, pages = {56, 62, 108, 110, 113, 116, 118, 120}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The story concerns a disease that causes people to violently kill themselves and the discovery of a way to mitigate the effects through made possible by a genetic abnormality in some women. The dystopia is the way that society treats those with the disease, which is to isolate and exclude them, which can be read as a metaphor for the way society treats various classes of \“others\”.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} }