Octavia E. Butler, Author . Seven Stories $24.95 (317p) ISBN 978-1-58322-690-2
The much-lauded Butler creates vampires in her 12th novel (her first in seven years) that have about as much to do with Bram Stoker's Dracula as HBO's Deadwood
does with High Noon
. They need human blood to survive, but they don't kill...
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Octavia E. Butler, Author Seven Stories Press $24.95 (365p) ISBN 978-1-888363-81-4
Lauren Olamina, a black teenager, grew up in a 21st-century America that was tearing itself apart. Global warming, massive unemployment, gang warfare and corporate greed combined to break down society in general and her impoverished southern...
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Octavia E. Butler, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $19.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-941423-99-1
Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Butler's first novel since 1989's Imago offers an uncommonly sensitive rendering of a very common SF scenario: by 2025, global warming, pollution, racial and ethnic tensions and other ills have precipitated a worldwide...
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Octavia E. Butler, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $18 (145p) ISBN 978-1-56858-055-5
Collected in this slim volume is the entire output of short fiction from the pen of MacArthur Award winner Butler (Parable of the Sower). ``I hate short story writing,'' Butler admits in her preface; not surprisingly, then, there are only five tales
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Octavia E. Butler, Author Seven Stories Press $10 (0p) ISBN 978-1-888363-36-4
Collection of SF stories about gender and race. (Dec.)
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Octavia E. Butler. Open Road (www.openroadmedia.com), $3.99 e-book (95p) ISBN 978-1-4976-0137-6
This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Butler: a novella titled "A Necessary Being," and a short story titled "Childfinder," which, according to the June 1979 issue of Locus, was originally slated for...
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Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, and John Jennings. Abrams ComicArts, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0947-0
Dana, an African-American woman in the 1970s, is thrust backward in time to a 19th-century Maryland plantation. Over many visits to the past, she realizes that the spoiled son of the plantation owner is her ancestor, destined to father children with
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