Imago
Author: Octavia E. Butler
The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being’s successful metamorphosis into adulthood…..Read More
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Survivor
From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of… Continue Reading Posted in: Psychological Fiction, Satire
Dawn
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… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, American, Science Fiction
Parable of the Sower
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only… Continue Reading Posted in: California, Science Fiction, Southern
Patternmaster
The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Psychic Ability
Fledgling
Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, 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… Continue Reading Posted in: Vampires, Young Women
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Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex--or design. He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu has also died many times. She can… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, American Writers, English Fiction
Bloodchild and Other Stories
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Parable of the Talents
A powerfully wrought novel describing an America permeated with violence, religious persecution, and the will to overcome such adversity, Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents explores the large and… Continue Reading Posted in: Mothers And Daughters, Science Fiction, Twenty First Century
Lilith’s Brood
Lilith Iyapo 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… Continue Reading Posted in: Dystopian Science Fiction, Extraterrestrial Beings, Genetic Engineering Science Fiction, Resurrection
Adulthood Rites
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Genetic Engineering
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