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Автор: Butler Octavia E
Название: Parable of the Sower
ISBN: 1472263669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472263667
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: The extraordinary, prescient NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.

Автор: Butler Octavia E
Название: Kindred
ISBN: 1472258223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472258229
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Octavia E. Butler`s ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.

Автор: Butler Octavia E.
Название: Parable of the Sower
ISBN: 1538732181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538732182
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: From the "grand dame" of science fiction, a dystopian classic of terror and hope about an African American teenage girl trying to survive in an all-too-real future.

When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death, Lauren Olamina, an empath and the daughter of a minister, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny...and the birth of a new faith, as Lauren becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a revoltionary idea christened "Earthseed."

Chilling and thought-provoking for adult and young adult readers alike, ..".there isn't a page in this vivid and frightening story that fails to grip the reader" (San Jose Mercury News).

Автор: Butler Octavia E
Название: Parable of the Talents
ISBN: 1472263650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472263650
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: The stunning sequel to Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.

Автор: Butler Octavia E.
Название: Parable of the Talents
ISBN: 153873219X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538732199
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever.

In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to "make America great again." In an increasingly divided and dangerous nation, Lauren's subversive colony--a minority religious faction led by a young black woman--becomes a target for President Jarret's reign of terror and oppression.

Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew, Lauren Olamina. As she searches for answers about her own past, she also struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future.

Автор: McDevitt Jack
Название: Octavia Gone
ISBN: 1481497987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781481497985
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 9190.00 T
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Описание: From Nebula Awardwinning author Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series featuring Gabe triumphantly reuniting with Alex and Chase to retrieve a possible alien artifactwhich may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers.

After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe has returned, and is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed deadjust as Alex and Chase are relearning how to live and work with him. But when a seemingly alien artifact goes missing from Gabe's old collection, a mystery is uncovered concerning its origins and it grants everyone an opportunity to dive into solving it as a team, once again.

When a lead on the artifact is tied to a dead pilot's sole unrecorded trip, another clue leads to one of the greatest mysteries of the age: the infamous disappearance of a team of scientists aboard a space station orbiting a black holethe Amelia Earhart of their time.

With any luck, Alex, Chase, and Gabe may be on the trail of the greatest archaeological discovery of their careers.

Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt, who Stephen King has called ';the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke,' has created another terrific science fiction mystery in his beloved Alex Benedict series.

Автор: Butler Octavia
Название: Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338)
ISBN: 1598536753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781598536751
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 27110.00 T
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Описание: The definitive edition of the complete works of the grand dame of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her collected stories

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 first 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. 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 a newly researched chronology of Butler's life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.

Автор: Butler Octavia
Название: Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set
ISBN: 1609809556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609809553
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A beautiful boxed set brings together the great sci-fi writer's two award-winning Parable books

The perfect gift for fans of Octavia Butler, this boxed set pairs the bestselling Nebula-prize nominee, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which together tell the near-future odyssey of Lauren Olamina, a "hyperempathic" young woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. In Sower, the place is California, where small walled communities protect from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicts. Lauren sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown. The book has an introduction by feminist, journalist, activist, and author Gloria Steinem. Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. It is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter--from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life--with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet. Talents is introduced by singer, musician, composer, producer, and curator Toshi Reagon, who created an opera based on the Parable books.

Автор: Butler Octavia E.
Название: Wild Seed
ISBN: 1538751488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538751480
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis).

Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu.

Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu -- until she meets Doro.

The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.

Автор: Butler Octavia E.
Название: Mind of My Mind
ISBN: 1538751496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538751497
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
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Описание: From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author comes the stunning story of telepathically sensitive Mary and her fight to free herself and her people from an immortal being who uses them for their bodies.
In this stunning Book Two of the Patternist series, the human race is ready to break free and win their freedom. For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young telepath has found a way to awaken--and rule--her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.

Автор: Dimock Wai-Chee
Название: American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler
ISBN: 0231157363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231157360
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.

Автор: Gerry Canavan
Название: Octavia E. Butler
ISBN: 025204066X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252040665
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: "I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction.

Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.