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"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. 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...
2) Kindred
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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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"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 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 is a captivating...
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Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative...
5) Wild seed
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As the acclaimed Patternist science fiction series begins, two immortals meet in the long-ago past—and mankind's destiny is changed forever.
For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him....
For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him....
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BookaVivo
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2021
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Esta aclamada novela post-apocalíptica de esperanza y terror de un autor galardonado "combina bien con 1984 o The Handmaid's Tale"e incluye un prólogo de N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). Cuando el cambio climático global y las crisis económicas conducen al caos social a principios de la década de 2020, California se llena de peligros, desde la escasez generalizada de agua hasta masas de vagabundos que harán cualquier cosa para vivir...
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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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Cuando el cambio climático global y las crisis económicas conducen al caos social a principios de la década de 2020, California se llena de peligros, desde la escasez generalizada de agua hasta masas de vagabundos que harán cualquier cosa para vivir para ver otro día. Lauren Olamina, de 15 años, vive dentro de una comunidad cerrada con su padre predicador, su familia y sus vecinos, protegidos de la anarquía circundante. En una sociedad donde...
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This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Butler.
"A Necessary Being" precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and includes characters from it, focusing exclusively on the Kohn, aliens who build their social hierarchies on the blueness of their fur.
In "Childfinder," a black woman with the gift of identifying children with latent psychic ability...
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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...
14) Wastelands
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2014
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Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence—the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon—these are our guides through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed
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