The New Hugo winners Book

Because I cannot help but desire and gravitate towards all things Octavia Butler, in this collection from 1985 she published a version of the short story "Speech Sounds", as well as "Bloodchild", the titled short story to the collection we know today. Yes, both of these stories are scrumptious. (This high rating is based on Butler's influences in the collection - without that that it would be a solid 2.5).

The rest of the anthology is a bit meh, but it is mostly just beige because it can't stand up to creativity and singularity with which Butler writes at. If she was excised from the collection and it was left to stand alone it would have read completely differently, and probably would've garnished a higher score, keeping in mind the date/social politics it was being published under. Still, praise girl, praise.