Butler, Octavia E.
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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTRoth, Veronica
Summary: A collection of six short stories imagines future lands with new technologies and beings, where in spite of advanced capabilities, people still must confront deeply human problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ROTBradbury, Ray
Summary: In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAWeber, David
Contents: A certain talent -- In the navy -- The captain from Kirkbean -- Sir George and the dragon -- Sword brother -- A beautiful friendship -- Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington -- Miles to go -- The traitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBMachado, Carmen Maria
Summary: Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIButler, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BUTTaylor, Drew Hayden
Summary: "A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Douglas & McIntyre 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSingh, Vandana
Summary: "In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh's deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINColfer, Chris
Summary: "Queen Red Riding Hood from the Land of Stories gives advice and makes observations on how to rule"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017