Butler, the first Black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship, "creates powerful images of black women in a genre in which and from which they have traditionally been marginalized and excluded" (Boutler, p. This was Butler's last lifetime publication, and her papers at the Huntington Library include multiple drafts for potential sequels. NOT Price Clipped.įirst edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Jennifer, Best wishes, Octavia E. "-, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED -GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///-sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)- Size: 5w x 8.25h Inches. Butler s friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays -including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler s life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. 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. 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. This 1st volume in the Library of America edition of Butler s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. 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. 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. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. 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.
hardcover, a Fine example, unread, in a Fine dustjacket, 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (see description).
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