A novel by this author ends with a woman finding her amputated left arm attached to a wall in her house.
The protagonist of a story by this author is instructed to slaughter a large animal, but opts to use a hidden rifle rather than his knife, violating the law of the Preserve. A novel by this author ends with a woman finding her amputated left arm attached to a wall in her house. A cancer drug causes children of its users to develop "Duryea-Gode Disease," in which they suffer progressively worse episodes of self-mutilation, in this author's short novel The Evening and the Morning and the Night. Lien refuses to consume restorative "sterile (*) eggs" and raises her son Gan to serve as a human host for a Tlic named T'Gatoi, in her acclaimed story "Bloodchild." In this author's best known novel, the writer Dana repeatedly slips back in time to save the plantation owner Rufus, who is her ancestor because he had raped a slave. For 10 points, name this author of "Bloodchild" and Kindred, a prominent black female author of science fiction.
The protagonist of a story by this author is instructed to slaughter a large animal, but opts to use a hidden rifle rather than his knife, violating the law of the Preserve.
Octavia Butler