Octavia E Butler
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A New York Times Notable Book: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
"A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and...
"A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel: The powerful and compelling sequel to the dystopian classic Parable of the Sower
Lauren Olamina was only eighteen when her family was killed, and anarchy encroached on her Southern California home. She fled the war zone for the hope of quiet and safety in the north. There she founded Acorn, a peaceful community based on a religion of her creation, called Earthseed, whose central tenet...
Lauren Olamina was only eighteen when her family was killed, and anarchy encroached on her Southern California home. She fled the war zone for the hope of quiet and safety in the north. There she founded Acorn, a peaceful community based on a religion of her creation, called Earthseed, whose central tenet...
3) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then...
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Seven Stories Press
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English
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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...
5) Wild seed
Author
Series
Patternists volume 1
Language
English
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An entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex, Doro fears no one until he meets Anyanwu, who can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"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...
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Library of America volume 338
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Series
Xenogenesis series volume 2
Publisher
Aspect/Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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"Nuclear war had nearly destroyed mankind when the Oankali came to the rescue, saving humanity -- but at a price. The Oankali survive by mixing their DNA with that of other species, and now on Earth they have permitted no child to be born without an Oankali parent. The first true hybrid is a boy named Akin -- son of Lilith Iyapo -- and to the naked eye he looks human, for now. He is born with extraordinary sensory powers, understanding speech at birth,...
9) Imago
Author
Series
Xenogenesis series volume 3
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
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Series
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Nova/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Lilith Iyapo awakens in an Oankali spaceship, the alien race that saved humanity from extinction after Earth was devastated by nuclear war. These beings have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep in suspended animation for centuries. She will be the chosen one who will guide her people back to her own planet, now dominated by wild nature, so that they learn to live in it and become the seed of a new breed. But every exchange has a counterpart: her...
11) Patternmaster
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Series
Patternists volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
12) Clay's ark
Author
Series
Patternists volume 3
Publisher
Aspect/Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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"In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic -- unless someone can stop it. Blake Maslin and his two daughters are driving to Flagstaff when bandits swarm their car. At gunpoint, the marauders kidnap one of Blake's children, promising to keep her safe in return for medical care. Warily, the doctor goes with them, not realizing that he has just taken the first step down a terrifying path that will...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An NPR Books Great Read: Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction's all-time masters.
The novella "A Necessary Being" showcases Octavia E. Butler's ability to create alien yet fully believable "others." Tahneh's father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern. When her father dies, Tahneh steps into his...
The novella "A Necessary Being" showcases Octavia E. Butler's ability to create alien yet fully believable "others." Tahneh's father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose leadership abilities render them so valuable that their members are captured and forced to govern. When her father dies, Tahneh steps into his...
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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
Parable books volume 1
Language
English
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Set thirty years in the future, a young woman suffering from hyperempathy, to feel others' pain as well as her own, makes a dangerous journey north from Southern California.
16) Dawn
Author
Series
Xenogenesis series volume 1
Publisher
Aspect
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth.
17) Mind of my mind
Author
Series
Patternists volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1994], c1977
Language
English