@booklet {9603, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Book of Martha{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Bloodchild and Other Stories}, volume = {2nd ed}, year = {2003}, note = {

Rpt. without the \“Afterword\” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction\’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 135-50; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 696-715, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (773).

Originally published May 21, 2003, on SciFi.com, which is no longer available online.

}, month = {May 21, 2003/2005}, pages = {187-214 with an {\textquotedblleft}Afterword{\textquotedblright} on 214}, publisher = {Seven Stories Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

God gives a black woman, raised poor in the U.S., the task of improving the lives of humanity. She discusses several possibilities with God before choosing to have people dream their utopia. In the \“Afterword\” she calls this her \“utopia story.\”

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