Butler, Octavia E.
Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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Summary: ""There's no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There's no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers-at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be." Legendary science fiction writer and Afrofuturist pioneer Octavia Butler wrote the essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" in the year 2000 for publication in Essence magazine. More than two decades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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Summary: Economic and environmental crises spiral out of control and lead to social chaos leaving no safe havens. Young Lauren Olamina, a minister's daughter loses her family and home in a night of violence and is forced to venture out into the unprotected land that has become America. But her fight for survival turns into something more, a startling vision of human destiny and the birth of a new faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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Summary: "Nuclear war had nearly destroyed mankind when the Oankali came to the rescue, saving humanity -- but at a price. The Oankali survive by mixing their DNA with that of other species, and now on Earth they have permitted no child to be born without an Oankali parent. The first true hybrid is a boy named Akin -- son of Lilith Iyapo -- and to the naked eye he looks human, for now. He is born with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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Summary: Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1995
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Summary: In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis). Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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Summary: "For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken--and rule--her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people"--publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1994
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Summary: "Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work ... These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2005
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Summary: Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1997
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Summary: A young girl suffering from amnesia wakes up to find that she's actually a middle-aged vampire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2007
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Summary: "In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic -- unless someone can stop it. Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one of Blake's children, promising to keep her safe in return for medical care. Warily, the doctor goes with them, not realizing that he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspect 1996
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Summary: Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000