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Told in the haunting voice of Lilith, the heroine of "Dawn", this book is thestory of Lilith's only son, Akin. Though he resembles a normal human, Akin isthe first "construct"--part man/part alien.

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Butler's first new novel in seven years is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.

The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best. Presented for the first time in one volume, with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative, sensual -- and disturbing -- epic of human transformation.Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by...

Nel giorno del suo ventiseiesimo compleanno, il 9 giugno 1976, Dana svanisce per pochi minuti davanti agli occhi inorriditi del marito Kevin, e dalla loro casa in California si ritrova catapultata nel Sud schiavista degli Stati Uniti di inizi Ottocento, prima della Guerra Civile. La donna verrà richiamata più volte nel violento mondo del passato, dove vivrà in prima persona gli orrori della schiavitù. La sua missione è proteggere la vita del g...

It is 2032 and Lauren Olamina's daughter Larkin narrates the story of her mother's life as she spreads the word of her Earthseed philosophy. Yet as Larkin describes how Earthseed's followers attain their goal of reaching the stars, she denounces the authority that her mother has become.

Dana, eine junge Schwarze Schriftstellerin, ist frisch verheiratet und voller Hoffnung, als sie 1976 mit ihrem weißen Ehemann, Kevin, nach Altadena umzieht. Noch umgeben von Umzugskisten wird sie plötzlich in ein völlig anderes Jahrzehnt und an einen vermeintlich unbekannten Ort versetzt: Dort rettet sie einen kleinen Jungen namens Rufus vor dem Ertrinken, bevor sie sich durchnässt in den 70ern und ihrem neuen Haus wiederfindet.Danas unerklärl...

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The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us-along with her Black female hero-through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and ...

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 ghetto 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.

The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adulthood.