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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Octavia E. Butler’s Patternmaster, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
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Celebrating Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the SF genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour. Original essays and letters sourced and…
Octavia E. Butler’s works of science fiction invite readers to consider the structures of power in society and to ask what it means to be human. The contributors to this…
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The essays explore new facets of Butler’s work and its relevance to philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, ethnic studies, women’s studies, religious studies, American studies, and U.S. history.
Octavia Butler
Based on the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler copyright A1979 –Title page verso.
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Octavia E. Butler
La trilogia olvidada de la gran dama de la ciencia ficcion.
Treinta anos despues de su primera publicacion en castellano, La estirpe de Lilith, titulo que reune la Trilogia Xenogenesis…
Octavia E Butler
Korean edition of [Wild Seed] by Octavia E. Butler. Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflexor design. He fears no one until he…
Butler’s first new novel in seven years is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is…
Told in the haunting voice of Lilith, the heroine of Dawn , this book is thestory of Lilith’s only son, Akin. Though he resembles a normal human, Akin isthe first…
The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being’s successful metamorphosis into adulthood.
This Grand Central Publishing edition is published by arrangement with Seven Stories Press… – Title page verso.
An updated collection from one of the finest voices in fiction–period (Washington Post)
The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and a roaming band of people addicted to a drug…
Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken…
Shori is a young amnesiac girl whose needs and abilities lead her to a shocking discovery: she is in fact a 53-year-old vampire, genetically modified to survive daylight. The sole…
A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling…
For the first time, Butler’s gripping trilogy– Dawn, Adulthood Rites , and Imago –are presented in one omnibus. Butler, a Hugo and Nebula award-winner, relates the story of an alien…
The Patternist novels detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.
This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with much to say about love, hate, slavery, and…
Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.
Copyright A 1998 by Octavia E. Butler. Reading group guide copyright A 2000 by Octavia Butler and Hachette Book Group, Inc. –Title page verso.
An all-powerful ruler’s son vies for control over the human race in this brilliant conclusion to the Patternist saga, from the critically acclaimed author of Parable of the Sower. In…
A PATTERNIST NOVEL (1): It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest. Together they will change the world.
A young woman harnesses her newfound power to challenge the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliant and provocative novel from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower…
Includes discussion questions and an excerpt from Imago.
From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity – before their…
A beautiful collector's edition of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic follow-up to Parable of the Sower by the visionary Octavia Butler, with a new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author…
American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are…
Ibi Zoboi
From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower…
New York Times bestseller Ibi Zoboi's groundbreaking biography of Octavia E. Butler received six starred reviews and is now available in paperback.
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The definitive edition of the complete works of the grand dame of American science fiction begins with gathering two novels and the complete stories in one volume for the first…
A graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking science-fiction classic offers an unflinching look at slavery, race and the role of women in society
A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer’s two award-winning Parable books
The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set pairs the bestselling Nebula-prize nominee…
"Originally published in hardcover by Abrams ComicArts in 2020."--Title page verso.
Lin Knutson
This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that through liminality, they engage in psychological…
This anthology celebrates the work and exploring the influence and legacy of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler. Author Nisi Shawl and scholar Rebecca J. Holden have joined forces to bring…
Ingrid Thaler
Analyzes fictions by Octavia E Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson as in-between color-coded literary and cultural traditions by paying particular attention to concepts of literary history and time as…
"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower…
Samuel Butler
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, a bold new edition of the utopian/dystopian classic that gave Erewhon its name.
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos.
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Cory Doctorow,George R. R. Martin,Octavia E. Butler,Jonathan Lethem
A gathering of the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of renowned authors of speculative fiction. It explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what…
