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Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories
- Title
- Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories / Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors.
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Publication
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 774 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's 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 finds 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 newly researched explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.
- Series Statement
- The Library of America ; 338
- Uniform Title
- Library of America ; 338.
- Alternative Title
- Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Time-travel fiction.
- Afrofuturist fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction / by Nisi Shawl -- Kindred -- Fledgling -- Collected stories. Childfinder ; Crossover ; Near of Kin ; Speech Sounds ; Bloodchild ; The Evening and the Morning and the Night ; Amnesty ; The Book of Martha -- Essays. Lost Races of Science Fiction ; Positive Obsession ; Furor Scribendi ; The Monophobic Response ; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-180
- ISBN
- 9781598536751
- 1598536753
- OCLC
- 1151752115
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E., author.
- Title
- Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories / Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors.
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- Gender group: WomenGerry Canavan: Gender group: MenNationality/regional group: AmericansOccupational/field of activity group: AuthorsGerry Canavan: Occupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members
- Series
- The Library of America ; 338Library of America ; 338.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Canavan, Gerry, editor.Shawl, Nisi, editor, writer of introduction.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Kindred.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Fledgling.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Childfinder.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Crossover.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Near of kin.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Speech sounds.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Bloodchild.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Evening and the morning and the night.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Amnesty.Container of (work): Butler, Octavia E. Book of Martha.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-180*R-RMRR PS221 .A4 v. 338