![]() ![]() Like classic vampire tales, in Butler’s speculative universe, the Ina have superhuman but not godlike strength and speed, the need to feed on human blood, rapid healing powers, and an allergy to light. Butler’s SciFi tale strips the supernatural elements from science fiction and recentres the story from the classical questions of alien otherness and hunter-prey to an image of “symbiosis”–the intimate relationship between the vampiric species, the Ina, and their living human partners, their Symbionts. ![]() Not since Anne Rice’s 1976 Interview with the Vampire, however, have we seen such a deepening of the psychological intimacy of the vampiric experience as we do in Octavia Butler’s standalone novel, Fledgling.įledgling was published the same year as Stephanie Meyers’ bestselling book Twilight and the third installation of the Dracula 2000 film series. This generation has seen the reinterpretation of vampire fiction in significant ways as these punk figures went pop. ![]()
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