Really excellent short collection. Is it even possible for Butler to write something that I don't like? Because it's looking ever more unlikely with each book of hers that I read. The two stand-outs here are, of course, "Bloodchild", and I think "Amnesty". I know the last isn't one of the major award winners collected here, but it's really outstandingly good and, like "Bloodchild", explores the compromises of living within a system that can't be changed. We like to think - and science fiction as a genre tends to encourage this - that there is no conflict we can't out-think, no invasion we can't fight, but sometimes defeat and compromise is the only realistic option we have. And it's awful, and degrading, but Butler always keeps the chance for dignity in it as well.