Octavia E. Butler — Author (17)
Parable of the Talents [Book] Douban NeoDB
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Headline Publishing Group 2014
Asha was born into a broken world. There are many things she needs to know: how her country could embrace a violent, far-right President promising to make America great again, why they turned a blind eye to the suffering - and the truth about her mother.
In her journals, Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter, her community and the revelation that led her to found a new faith that teaches 'God Is Change'.
Bloodchild and Other Stories [Book] Goodreads Douban NeoDB Google Books
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Seven Stories Press 2005 - 10
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award.

Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability—and responsibility—to save humanity from itself?

Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices.
Adulthood Rites [Book] Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Warner Aspect Books 1997 - 4
The futures of both mankind and an alien species rest in the hands of one hybrid son in the award-winning science fiction author’s masterful sequel to Dawn.

Nuclear war had nearly destroyed mankind when the Oankali came to the rescue, saving humanity—but at a price. The Oankali survive by mixing their DNA with that of other species, and now on Earth they have permitted no child to be born without an Oankali parent. The first true hybrid is a boy named Akin—son of Lilith Iyapo— and to the naked eye he looks human, for now. He is born with extraordinary sensory powers, understanding speech at birth, speaking in sentences at two months old, and soon developing the ability to see at the molecular level. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races’ intergalactic future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must decide which unlucky souls will stay behind.

At once a coming-of-age story, science fiction adventure, and philosophical exploration, Butler’s ambitious and breathtaking novel ultimately raises the question of what it means to be human.
Despertar [Book] Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler / Heci Regina Candiani publishing house: Morro Branco 2018 - 11
Há vida inteligente lá fora e é ela que salva a humanidade de si mesma. Quando Lilith Iyapo desperta após 250 anos de animação suspensa, descobre que o planeta Terra e os seres humanos sobreviventes de uma guerra catastrófica estão sob a guarda dos Oankali, uma espécie alienígena com habilidades e tecnologias tão impressionantes quanto sua aparência é repulsiva. Lilith foi escolhida para despertar e preparar outros seres humanos para finalmente retornarem ao planeta natal. A Terra está novamente habitável há pouco, porém em condições bem diferentes do que conheciam. Assim, os humanos precisarão desenvolver suas habilidades de sobrevivência, enquanto Lilith terá que superar as próprias suspeitas para liderá-los nessa nova etapa – além de decidir se vale a pena andar sobre a linha do que nos define como humanos.
Kindred [Book] NeoDB Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Beacon Press 2004 - 2
The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.

Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her 26th birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
Ritos de Passagem [Book] Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Morro Branco 2019 - 8
Indicado ao Prêmio Locus de Melhor Romance de Ficção Científica

Nessa sequência de Despertar, Lilith Iyapo deu à luz ao que parece um menino saudável de nome Akin. Porém, Akin tem na verdade cinco pais: um homem e uma mulher, um Oankali macho e um fêmea, e um Ooloi agênero. Os Oankali e os Ooloi são parte de uma raça alienígena que resgatou a humanidade de uma devastadora guerra nuclear, mas o preço a ser pago a eles é alto, uma vez que os alienígenas são obrigados a unir seu material genético com o de outras raças, alterando drasticamente ambos no processo.

Nesse planeta Terra em reabilitação, essa “nova” raça está emergindo através da mistura de humano/Oankali/Ooloi, mas há também humanos “puros” que escolhem resistir aos alienígenas e a salvação que oferecem. Esses resistentes são esterilizados pelos Ooloi para que não possam passar para frente o defeito genético que os faz destruírem a si mesmos, mas, fora isso, são deixados em paz (a menos que se tornem violentos).

Quando humanos resistentes sequestram o jovem Akin, os Oankali escolhem deixar a criança com seus captores para que ele, a mais “humana” das crianças Oankali, decida se os humanos resistentes devem ter sua fertilidade e liberdade devolvidas, mesmo que isso signifique apenas a volta da sua autodestruição.

Esse é o segundo volume da série Xenogênese, uma poderosa história de existência alienígena.
A Parábola do Semeador [Book] Goodreads
Parable of the Sower
author: Octavia E. Butler translator: Carolina Caires Coelho publishing house: Morro Branco 2018 - 6
Quando uma crise ambiental e econômica leva ao caos social, nem mesmo as cidades muradas estão seguras. Em uma noite de fogo e morte, Lauren Olamina, a jovem filha de um pastor, perde sua família, seu lar e se aventura pelas terras americanas desprotegidas. Mas o que começa como uma fuga pela sobrevivência acaba levando a algo muito maior: uma visão estonteante do destino humano.

E ao nascimento de uma nova fé.
A Parábola dos Talentos [Book] Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler / Carolina Caires Coelho publishing house: Morro Branco 2019 - 4
A FICÇÃO DE OCTAVIA BUTLER É MAIS REAL DO QUE GOSTARÍAMOS

Lauren Olamina está casada e acaba de ter uma filha em Bolota, a comunidade que construiu com outras pessoas que haviam perdido tudo. Nos últimos cinco anos, Semente da Terra, a religião criada por Olamina cresce e se desenvolve junto com a comunidade. O país, porém, começa a passar por uma preocupante mudança.

O candidato à presidência Andrew Steele Jarret está ganhando popularidade com a promessa de “tornar a América grande novamente” em um retorno aos valores tradicionais e cristãos. Para seus fanáticos seguidores, isso exige o fim da tolerância religiosa e de qualquer igualdade racial e de gênero – e estão dispostos a impor sua doutrina com violência.

A segurança da pequena comunidade e da família nascente de Olamina nunca foi garantida. “Deus é mudança”, mas eles sobreviverão a mais uma?
La Parabole du semeur [Book] NeoDB Goodreads
Parable of the Sower
author: Octavia E. Butler translator: Philippe Rouard publishing house: Au Diable Vauvert 2020 - 10
2024. Le nouveau président des États-Unis provoque une crise sans précédent. Dérèglement social et climatique, épidémies, pauvreté, violences… Dans ce décor post-apocalyptique, la barbarie règne, les murs s’élèvent. La fille d’un pasteur noir atteinte d’hyper-empathie entame la rédaction d’une Bible d’espoir et d’humanité, Le Livre des Vivants.

UNE ANTICIPATION VISIONNAIRE

« Une grande dame de la SF, auteure américaine majeure ayant écrit sur la question noire et dont l’œuvre foisonnante déconstruit les mythes de la technologie, de la conquête et du pouvoir. »

Léa Mormin-Chauvac – Libération
Mind of My Mind [Book] ReviewDB Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Grand Central Publishing 1994 - 8
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 ghetto 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.
Parable of the Sower [Book] NeoDB Google Books Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Grand Central Publishing 2023 - 3
This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).

When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions.

Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny.

Filhos de Sangue e Outras Histórias [Book] Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Morro Branco 2020 - 7
Octavia E. Butler, a Grande Dama da Ficção Científica e autora de clássicos como Kindred: laços de sangue e A Parábola do Semeador, agora nos apresenta uma incrível coletânea de contos e ensaios, uma perfeita introdução para novos leitores e uma aquisição obrigatória para fãs.

“Filhos de Sangue”, um dos grandes destaques da coletânea, traz uma avassaladora reflexão de Octavia sobre questões como simbiose, amor, poder e escolhas impossíveis. O conto venceu todas as premiações da categoria como Hugo, Nebula e Locus e é constantemente enaltecido como um de seus melhores trabalhos

Todos os contos incluem notas da própria autora, abordando a inspiração, criação e desenvolvimento de suas ideias.

Servindo como parábolas dos problemas reais que afligem o mundo atual, cada história nos transporta com poucas palavras pela imaginação extraordinária de Octavia, reforçando a sua posição como uma das autoras mais relevantes da literatura contemporânea.
Imago [Book] Google Books
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Grand Central Publishing 2023 - 03
From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.
Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. The Oankalis' greatest skill lies in the species' ability to constantly adapt and evolve, a process that is guided by their third sex, the ooloi, who are able to read and mutate genetic code.

Now, for the first time in the humans' relationship with the Oankali, a human mother has given birth to an ooloi child: Jodahs. Throughout his childhood, Jodahs seemed to be a male human-alien hybrid. But when he reaches adolescence, Jodahs develops the ooloi abilities to shapeshift, manipulate DNA, cure and create disease, and more. Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind -- or become the biggest threat to their survival.
Dawn [Book] NeoDB Goodreads Douban
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Warner 1997 - 4
Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price.
Fledgling [Book] NeoDB Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Grand Central Publishing 2007 - 1
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted — and still wants — to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
Parable of the Talents [Book] NeoDB Goodreads
author: Octavia E. Butler publishing house: Aspect 2001 - 11
This Nebula Award-winning sequel to <i>Parable of the Sower</i> continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren must fight back to save the new world order.