Blood Child

Blood Child by Octavia Butler is an obvious novel about "Male Pregnancy" in a way.  Alien symbiotic worms use human males as hosts for their children and live in a sort of society together.

1. Questions you have about the story you read:

•  What is the relative age between all the humans, and why do they prefer living a terrible life with in a preserve only being able to live if they become hosts to these symbiotic aliens?

• I don't particularly have any other questions about the story, it seemed like a pretty straight forward short story about a child being fearful of the symbiotic alien, but in the end accepts it.

2. What questions do you think the story is asking?

• I think the story is asking questions about the moral issue of some sort of race taking over the human race and using us as we use animals everyday.
• Also, is it okay to subject our bodies to something unnatural and seemingly horrifying just because that's what our previous generations of deemed unobjectionable.

3. After seeing a picture of Octavia Butler, what questions arise?

• Seeing the author's picture, doesn't exactly arise any questions, but it seems odd as she appears to be a kind black woman to be coming up with weird science fiction ideas.  These sorts of ideas are often presumed to be coming from some creepy single male that is left to his own devices.