“The Evening and the Morning and the Night”

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Title“The Evening and the Morning and the Night”
Year for Search1987
AuthorsButler, Octavia E[stelle](1947-2006)
Secondary TitleOmni Magazine
Volume / Edition9.8
Pagination56, 62, 108, 110, 113, 116, 118, 120
Date PublishedMay 1987
KeywordsAfrican American author, Female author
Annotation

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”.
Additional Publishers

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).
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

African American female author (1947-2006)
Full Text

1987 Butler, Octavia E[stelle] (1947-2006). “The Evening and the Morning and the Night.” Omni Magazine 9.8 (May 1987): 56, 62, 108, 110, 113, 116, 118, 120. 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). PSt  

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”.