Octavia E Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Stories Science Fiction

Octavia E Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories / Library of America (inc. Childfinder; Crossover; Near of Kin; Speech Sounds; Bloodchild; Amnesty; Book of Martha; The Evening and the Morning and the Night; Essays )

By: Butler, Octavia E; Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl, Editors / Library of America ........................... Edition: First Edition

ISBN Number: 1598536753

ISBN-13: 9781598536751

Illustrator: Photo Cover

Location Published: New York, NY, N.Y. / New York: The Library of America ( Penguin Random House Distributors ), 2020, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2020

Binding: Hard Cover

Book Condition: Fine (see description)

Jacket Condition: Fine (see description)

Inscription: Not Signed

Size: 5w x 8.25h Inches

Type: NOT Price Clipped

Categories: Science Fiction Fantasy

Seller ID: 167450 ................................. -----------hardcover, a Fine example, unread, in a Fine dustjacket, 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie:. Childfinder; Crossover; Near of Kin; Speech Sounds; Bloodchild; Amnesty; Book of Martha; The Evening and the Morning and the Night;--- Essays include: Lost Races of Science Fiction; Positive Obsession; Furor Scribendi; The Monophobic Response; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories --- Chronology; Notes on the Text; Notes, ---"An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists I wrote myself in, she would later recall -establishing herself as one of thepioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. ---This 1st volume in the Library of America edition of Butlers collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she ?nds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays -including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butlers life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butlers friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction. "---, ............ ///Local ( Burlington Ont ) pick up available, otherwise we ship via the post office 5 times a week, if shipping I need the postal code if in Canada, or the country destination, we accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, paypal, e-transfer from Canadian banks, .................................................. We are full time booksellers ///LeonardShoup(dot)com/// We have over 500 books listings on kijiji (with another 4000+ available) so please browse our other listings or inquire about availability of our other material.