‘The Washington Post Book World ‘Readers familiar with… A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction period… Real women caught in impossible situations.’ The Village Voice’Butler’s literary craftsmanship is superb.’ The Washington Post Book World She is a realist, writing the most detailed social criticism and creating some of the most fascinating female characters in the genre… A book you’ll find hard to put down.’ Essence’Butler’s books are exceptional… It is everything the literature of science fiction can be.’ Walter Mosley’ Kindred is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now.’ Los Angeles Herald Examiner’Truly terrifying… Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has even begun.’In Kindred Octavia Butler creates a road for the impossible, and a balm for the unbearable. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. The twenty fifth anniversary edition of the classic novel that has sold over 250,000 copiesDana, 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. These humans may be his only hope to find successful mates, but they have been raised to revile and despise his species above all else. Jodahs, who was thought to be a male but who is actually maturing into the first ooloi from a human/Oankali union, finds a pair of resisters who prove that some pure humans are still fertile.
Even though the Oankali have against their better judgment created a human colony on Mars so that humanity as a species can continue unaltered, many human ‘resisters’ either have not heard of the Mars colony or don’t believe the Oankali will allow them to live there. The Oankali and ooloi are part of an extraterrestrial species that saved humanity from nuclear oblivion, but many humans feel the price for their help is too high: the Oankali and ooloi intend to genetically merge with humanity, creating a new species at the expense of the old.
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This conclusion to the Xenogenesis series Dawn and Adulthood Rights focuses on Jodahs, the child of a union between humans, alien Oankali, and the sexless ooloi. Therese Littleton This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Fans will be eagerly awaiting the next installment in what promises to be a moving and adventurous saga. Butler’s writing is simple and elegant, and her storytelling skills are superb, as usual. Parable of the Talents is told from both mother’s and daughter’s perspectives, but it is the narrative of Lauren’s grown daughter, who has seen her mother made into a deity of sorts, that is the most compelling. Her single mindedness in teaching Earthseed may be her only chance to survive, but paradoxically, may cause the ultimate estrangement of her beloved daughter. She must find a way to escape and begin again, without family or friends. Her small community is destroyed, her child is kidnapped, and she is imprisoned by sad*istic zealots. In Parable of the Talents, the seeds of change that Lauren planted begin to bear fruit, but in unpredictable and brutal ways. She teaches that ‘God is change’ and that humanity’s ultimate destiny is among the stars. The basic principles of Lauren’s faith, Earthseed, were contained in a collection of deceptively simple proverbs that Lauren used to recruit followers. The saga began with the near future dystopian tale of Sower, in which young Lauren Olamina began to realize her destiny as a leader of people dispossessed and destroyed by the crumbling of society. com 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 Parable of the Sower, and now continues with Parable of the Talents.
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