- Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic, unless someone can stop it.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and epic.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Octavia E. Butler, Neal Ghant
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Legend, Arrow Books, Ace
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781453265413
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An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black
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