![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Fledgling, a woman wakes up, covered in burns, in a mountainside cave with no knowledge of who she is or what happened to her. This landmark novel forever changed the way we think about what science fiction can do. In Kindred, a black woman married to a white man is pulled back and forth between her twentieth century present and a pre-Civil War past in which she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of her white ancestor, with repercussions both for her view of herself and her relationship with her husband. This first volume opens with Butler’s best-known novel, the harrowing and incisive Kindred, joined by the vampire novel Fledgling as well as her complete short stories. Eerily perceptive and still remarkably fresh, Butler’s distinctive approach to the genre has been extraordinarily influential, inspiring current practicioners like N. Library of America extends its celebration of the best, most groundbreaking works of science fiction with a definitive new edition of the complete works of Octavia Butler. The definitive edition of the complete works of the “grand dame” of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and the complete stories ![]()
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