Speculative fiction writer
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler used speculative fiction to examine power, kinship, and survival. The three novels in this collection approach those questions through time travel, social collapse, and unusually long lives.
On the shelves
Books in the collection
Speculative fiction
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
A Black writer is repeatedly pulled from twentieth-century California to a Maryland plantation.
Speculative fiction
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Lauren Olamina responds to social collapse by developing a belief system and seeking a community.
Speculative fiction
Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Two long-lived figures clash over control, survival, and the meaning of kinship.