![]() ![]() Some have interpreted “Bloodchild” as an allegory about slavery, and I’ll admit the idea crossed my mind as well while reading it. Needless to say, Gan does not take this well. T’Gatoi and Gan must perform emergency surgery to remove the larvae inside him before they eat him alive. One night a man arrives at his front door. He has spent his whole life by the side of his Tlic partner, T’Gatoi, and considers being a host an honor. The story centers on Gan, a boy who has just come of age to be impregnated (males are usually chosen as hosts so females can keep birthing more humans). They agree to shelter the humans on their planet, but there is a price: once a generation, each human family must offer a child as a host for Tlic offspring. The Tlic reproduce by laying their eggs in living life forms, and recognize that humans would make excellent hosts. Some time before the story begins, a group of refugees fleeing Earth land on a planet inhabited by gigantic sentient centipedes called the Tlic. “Bloodchild” reveals the details of its world organically. ![]()
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