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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
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A tightly themed, well executed collection: Wastelands captures our apocalypse fears and fantasies equally well and sometimes even simultaneously.
Adams wisely chooses Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess" as an opener and moves into all manner of exciting territory from there. Wastelands is the expected mix of strong (and some avera... »
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Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers)
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Kindred is an okay book. It got boring for me in the middle. As some people have pointed out, it is written from an African American point of view, which is unlike Bulter. She usually seems to write from the perspective of a being, flawed and connected to all others somehow. Race is usually a minor detail. I think that she attempted to connect African ... »
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Parable of the Sower
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Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people. Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian future United States of walled cities, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old woman with hyperempathy syndrome--if she sees another in pain, she fe... »
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Lilith's Brood
Another omnibus of the three books in this series.
This odd series I didn't find too interesting. Maybe I would if I was an invading a... »
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Fledgling
One of the most interesting writers of Sci Fi. Normally a fan of historical fiction to non fiction. I have found Ms. Butler has the unique gift of combini... »
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Seed to Harvest
Collected for the first time are all four of Octavia E. Butler's Patternist novels: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster. Now you ge... »
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Parable of the Talents
Octavia Butler tackles the creation of a new religion, the making of a god, and the ultimate fate of humanity in her Earthseed series, which began with ... »
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Wild Seed
Butler is an exquisite writer.
BUT, this publisher's edition is filled with errors---not just little periods, but repeated dialogue lines, ... »
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Bloodchild: And Other Stories
"What good is science fiction to Black people?" If you have ever wondered this, or if you've ever thought that the future was limited to shiny, cybernetic... »
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Dawn (Xenogenesis)
In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most... »
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