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Octavia E Butler
1) Kindred
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English
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Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The complete Patternist series—the acclaimed science fiction epic of a world transformed by a secret race of telepaths and their devastating rise to power.
In the late seventeenth century, two immortals meet in an African forest. Anyanwu is a healer, a three-hundred-year-old woman who uses her wisdom to help those around her. The other is Doro, a malevolent despot who has mastered the power of stealing the bodies of others when...
In the late seventeenth century, two immortals meet in an African forest. Anyanwu is a healer, a three-hundred-year-old woman who uses her wisdom to help those around her. The other is Doro, a malevolent despot who has mastered the power of stealing the bodies of others when...
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English
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More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum...
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Español
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Publicada originalmente en 1998, el mensaje de esperanza y resistencia frente al fanatismo de esta profética novela es más relevante que nunca. En 2032, tras perder su hogar y su familia, Lauren Olamina estableció una pacífica comunidad en el norte de California, basada en su fe recién fundada: Semilla Terrestre. En ella ofrece refugio a los marginados y perseguidos por la administración de Jarret, un presidente ultraconservador que promete...
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English
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The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America's future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that...
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The complete series about an alien species that could save humanity after nuclear apocalypse—or destroy it—from "one of science fiction's finest writers" (The New York Times).
The newest stage in human evolution begins in outer space. Survivors of a cataclysmic nuclear war awake to find themselves being studied by the Oankali, tentacle-covered galactic travelers whose benevolent appearance hides their surprising plan...
The newest stage in human evolution begins in outer space. Survivors of a cataclysmic nuclear war awake to find themselves being studied by the Oankali, tentacle-covered galactic travelers whose benevolent appearance hides their surprising plan...
10) Xenogenesis
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Series
Xenogenesis trilogy volume 1-3
Publisher
Guild America Books
Pub. Date
c1987-1989
Language
English
12) Clay's ark
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Series
Patternists volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
13) Mind of my mind
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Series
Patternists volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1977
Language
English
14) Patternmaster
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Series
Patternists volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
15) Wild seed
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Series
Patternists volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Anyanwu is all that is female: She can birth tribes, heal with kisses, and transform into anything she forces herself to be. Doro is all that is male: He possesses, seduces, hunts, and kills raising armies and bending empires to his will. One cannot die, the other cannot be killed. They are all that is human and far more. This is the story of their passion and ambition, of a love and hatred that endures from ancient Kush to modern California....
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Bloodchild and Other Stories is renowned author Octavia E. Butler's only collection of shorter work and features the Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories "Bloodchild" and "Speech Sounds." These works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. Butler proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature's strongest voices."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher
Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Kindred" by Octavia E. Butler was first published in 1979. It is one of the bestselling science fictions. It is partly the story of time travel and partly a slave narrative. The book has continued to become more and more popular since its first publication. It is noticeable that "Kindred" is regularly selected as a text for community-wide reading programmes and book organizations. The book has been included in the course of study for high school and...
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Series
Library of America volume 338
Publisher
Library Classics of the United States, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This first volume in the Library of America edition of 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 preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is...
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Español
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Mas de treinta y cinco anos despues de su lanzamiento, Parentesco sigue atrayendo a nuevos lectores con su profunda exploracion de la violencia y la perdida de la humanidad causada por la esclavitud en Estados Unidos, y el impacto complejo y duradero que aun tiene este hecho historico en la actualidad. La obra mas famosa de Butler, aclamada por la critica, cuenta la historia de Dana, una joven negra que de repente e inexplicablemente es transportada...
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Series
Earthseed books volume 1
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America's future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger...