Автор: Butler Octavia E Название: Parable of the Sower ISBN: 1472263669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472263667 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: The extraordinary, prescient NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.
Автор: Butler Octavia E Название: Kindred ISBN: 1472258223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472258229 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Octavia E. Butler`s ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.
Автор: Butler Octavia E Название: Parable of the Talents ISBN: 1472263650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472263650 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 1668.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The stunning sequel to Parable of the Sower, the NEW YORK TIMES-bestselling novel.
Автор: Butler Octavia E. Название: Parable of the Sower ISBN: 1538732181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538732182 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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: 153873219X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538732199 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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.
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.
Описание: Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires is a timely text that critically situates Butler's fiction in several fields of study including American, African-American, gender, and science fiction studies. This book attempts to avoid excluding as many readers as possible by evading esoteric jargon while still engaging the interdisciplinary discourses that respond to Butler's fiction. The study asserts that Butler's fiction transforms the way the body is imagined with reference to race and gender. This text examines how Butler's fiction is able to cross several genre boundaries while simultaneously reshaping the genre of science fiction. This book makes the claim that Butler's fiction is crucial for contemporary and future investigations of identity formation. Discussions of race, class, and sex are reoccurring topic that are inextricable to any understanding of body politics and theory. This book is filled with exciting and insightful discussions that raise questions about what constitutes humanity in Butler's fiction and in the real world. Ultimately, the purpose of the text is to add to the scholarship surrounding Butler and to bring her to the attention of audiences that might otherwise overlook her work. This book is an invitation for readers inside and outside of the academy to discover the fiction of Octavia Butler.
Описание: Since the 1980s, an increasing number of black writers have begun publishing speculative-fantastic fictions such as fantasy, gothic, utopian and science fiction. Writing into two literary traditions that are conventionally considered separate -- white speculative genres and black literary-cultural traditions -- the texts integrate an African American sensibility of the past within the present, with speculative fiction’s sensibility of the present within the future. Thaler takes stock of this trend by proposing that the growing number of texts has brought forth a genre of its own. She analyzes recent fictions by Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson as in-between color-coded literary and cultural traditions by paying particular attention to concepts of literary history and time as well as postcolonial notions of hybridity and mimicry, race, and identity. The study treads on new ground since it not only offers a broader scope of the various speculative genres in which established and emerging black authors currently publish, but also shows that these fictions contest conventionally accepted notions of white genres and black traditions and, in consequence, of (post-)postmodern literature and popular fiction.
Автор: Butler Octavia E. Название: Wild Seed ISBN: 1538751488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538751480 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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 Рейтинг: Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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: Gregory J. Hampton, Kendra R. Parker Название: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler ISBN: 1350079634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350079632 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 25344.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Octavia E. Butler is widely recognized today as one of the most important figures in contemporary science fiction. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering Butler’s complete works from the bestselling novel Kindred , to her short stories and major novel sequences Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and The Parables , this is the most comprehensive Companion to Butler scholarship available today. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler covers the full range of contemporary scholarly themes and approaches to the author’s work, including:· Cyborgs and the posthuman· Race and African American history· Afrofuturism· Gender and sexuality· New perspectives from Religious Studies, the Environmental Humanities and Disability Studies· New discoveries from the Butler archives at the Huntington LibraryThe book includes a comprehensive bibliography of works by Butler and secondary scholarship on her work as well as an afterword by the novelist Tananarive Due.
Автор: Butler Octavia E. Название: Clay`s Ark ISBN: 153875150X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538751503 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to an isolated compound. There, the three captives discover that the compound's residents have a highly contagious alien disease that has mutated their DNA to make them powerful, dangerous, and compelled to infect others. If Blake and his daughters do not escape, they will be infected with a virus that will either kill them outright or transform them into outcasts whose very existence is a threat to the world around them. In the following hours, Blake and his daughters each must make a vital choice: risk everything to escape and warn the rest of the world, or accept their new reality -- as well as the uncertain fate of the human race.
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