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Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award winning novelette.

Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in search of a life free of persecution. Now they live alongside the Tlic, an alien race who face extinction; their only chance of survival is to plant their larvae inside the bodies of the humans.

When Gan, a young, boy, is chosen as a carrier of Tlic eggs, he faces an impossible dilemma: can he really help the species he has grown up with, even if it means sacrificing his own life?

Bloodchild originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1984. The story has been reprinted many times. It can be found in the anthologies:

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985), edited by Gardner Dozois
Best SF of the Year #14 (1985), edited by Terry Carr
The 1985 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha
Nebula Awards 20 (1985), edited by George Zebrowski
The New Hugo Winners (1989), edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Foundations of Fear: An Exploration of Horror (1992) edited by David G. Hartwell
Invaders! (1993) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: SF by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995), edited by Pamela Sargent
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer

The story is included in the collection Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Chocky

John Wyndham

At first they thought that Matthew was just goining through a phase of talking to himself. And like many parents, they waited for him to grow out of it. But as time passed it became worse, not better. Matthew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense. It was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear or see. Then Matthew began doing things he couldn't do before. Like counting in binary code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky, the person who lived in his head. Whoever or whatever Chocky was, it wasn't childish imagination. It was far too intelligent and frightening for that.

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