Butler's first two novels are clearly tied to each other, most importantly through the figure of the putative narrator of Jujitsu for Christ, Marcus Gandy. In that novel, Marcus predicted that he would write a novel about "vampires on Mars," in an apparent reference to Nightshade. Connections with Marcus may also be found in Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock, but they are more tenuous and for the most part inferential rather than direct. It is suspicious, for example, that one of the many "voices" the Holy Ghost employs in its first-person statements happens to be black dialect — a circumstance that recalls similar "lapses" on Marcus's part as narrator of Butler's first novel. A more direct link to both Marcus and to Nightshade occurs in Chapter 8 of Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock when the narrative voice, presumably the Holy Ghost...