Octavia E Butler
1) Kindred
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Series
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
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Description
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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Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of 'hyperempathy' -- which causes her to feel others' pain as her own -- sets off on foot along the dangerous...
3) Wild seed
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Series
Language
English
Description
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 sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body,...
4) Fledgling
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fledgling, Octavia 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 in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
746 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lilith Lyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected, by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: Their own children. This is their story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 423 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost...
7) Clay's ark
Author
Series
Patternist volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans. Resisting the compulsion to infect others is mental agony, but succumbing would mean relinquishing their humanity and free will. Desperate, they kidnap a doctor and his two daughters as they cross the wasteland -- and, in doing so, endanger the world."--bn.com....
Author
Series
Patternist volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A telepathic race is ruled by the strong mind of the Patternmaster, but his ruthless son craves the ultimate power of the position and has murdered everyone who stands in his way except a final victim--his younger brother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace of humans who obey his every command. The result is Mary: a young black woman living on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles in 1970s, who has no idea how much power she will soon wield. Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like...
10) Dawn
Author
Series
Xenogenesis trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Survivor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
GN 430L
Physical Desc
240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. 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...
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Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
v, 266 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.