Octavia Butler

Kindred is the bestselling novel by American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Part time-travel tale and part slave narrative, it was first published in 1979 and is still widely popular; it is regularly chosen as a text for community-wide reading programs and book organizations, as well as being a common …

La parabola del seminatore è un romanzo di fantascienza del 1993 della scrittrice statunitense Octavia Butler. È stato candidato al Premio Nebula per il miglior romanzo 1994. È stato pubblicato per la prima volta in italiano nel 2000 da Fanucci.

Fledgling is a science fiction vampire novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, published in 2005.

Parable of the Talents is the second in a series of science fiction novels written by Octavia E. Butler and published in 1998.

Wild Seed is a science fiction novel by writer Octavia Butler. Although published in 1980 as the fourth book of the Patternist series it is the earliest book in the chronology of the Patternist world. The other books in the series are, in order within the Patternist chronology:Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, Survivor, …

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the …

In the aftermath of Earth's final war, Lilith awakens to see a shadowy figure -- Jdahya, one of the Oankali, a race that has decided to save the human race from itself. Lilith learns that the Oankali are gene traders who interbreed with failing species so that both races can survive. Jdahya proposes that Lilith mate …

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.

Bloodchild and Other Stories is the only and rather brief collection of science fiction stories and essays by Octavia E. Butler. Each story features an afterword by Butler. "Bloodchild", the title story, won both Hugo Award and Nebula Award.

The third book in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy.