Bloodchild follows the life of Gan, a young boy living on an alien planet with the rest of human civilization on a reservation. The female aliens of this planet use human males to carry their eggs, one particular alien lives with Gan and chooses him to carry her young. After witnessing a gruesome childbirth, Gan has hesitations about doing this but proceeds anyway to keep his family safe.
A large theme in Bloodchild deals with gender role reversal, where the female aliens take the role of the patriarch and men must experience the pains of childbirth. Because of this raw description and insight of impregnation and childbirth, Octavia Butler's point of view as a woman shines through, as she is able to twist it into a man's perspective.
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