‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. ‘In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ NEW YORKER Over the course of her career, she won several major industry awards, including a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award, and she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur genius fellowship. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories Edited by Nisi Shawl and Gerry Canavan Overview News & Views Table of Contents add to cart 30.00 List Price: 35. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Octavia Butler (J February 24, 2006) was an Black American science fiction author. To save herself, Shori must learn anew everything about the power and desires that she holds, the life that was stolen from her – and those who want her dead. Fledgling is a sci-fi vampire novel, about a 53-year-old black vampire (Shori) who has the physical appearance of a 10-year-old, which makes for some very. Fledgling, Octavia Butlers 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. She is a fifty-three-year-old vampire, and in terrible danger.

Butler.Ī young girl wakes up in the woods, gravely injured and alone, with no memory of what happened or who she is.Īs Shori heals, she realises that she isn’t like the people around her, which leads to a shocking discovery. Fledgling, Octavia Butlers 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.

The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. completely devours the genre which gave rise to it’ JUNOT DÍAZ

‘The Octavia Butler novel for our times’ THE ATLANTIC

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