02617cam a2200421 4500 586130901 TxAuBib 20220804120000.0 220623s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781598536751 HRD 35.00 1598536753 HRD 35.00 TxAuBib Butler, Octavia E. Octavia E. Butler [BOOK] : Kindred / Fledgling / Collected Stories / Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors. Kindred. Fledgling. Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories. New York, N.Y. : Library of America, 2020. xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm. Library of America ; 338 Includes bibliographical references. Introduction / by Nisi Shawl -- Kindred -- Fledgling -- Collected stories. Childfinder ; Crossover ; Near of Kin ; Speech Sounds ; Bloodchild ; The Evening and the Morning and the Night ; Amnesty ; The Book of Martha -- Essays. Lost Races of Science Fiction ; Positive Obsession ; Furor Scribendi ; The Monophobic Response ; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories. This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. 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 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 explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction. 20220804. African American women Fiction. Enslaved persons Fiction. Slaveholders Fiction. Slavery Fiction. Vampires Fiction. Time travel Fiction. Science fiction. Short stories. Horror fiction. Fantasy fiction. Canavan, Gerry, editor. Shawl, Nisi, editor. Library of America ; 338.