Contains all of Octavia E. Butler's short fiction and two essays, the novellas and stories are parables of our contemporary world, pitting human fraility and social and environmental decay against residual strengths of human character and human history.
Shori, a fifty-three-year-old vampire who appears as a young girl, wakes up in a cave and becomes the target of a plot to kill her and the rest of her species.
Chronicles the life of Akin, a child of human and alien parents, who will eventually decide whether his human kin should be granted the freedom from their alien "benefactors" to procreate on their own, without alien blood to dilute the human race's destructive tendencies.
Fifty-three-year-old Shori wakes up in a cave amnesiac and seriously wounded, and later learns that she is a vampire genetically modified to walk in the daylight.
Larkin, abducted from her parents as a child and raised by members of the Church of Christian America, comes to suspect that Lauren Olamina, leader of the cult Earthseed, is her biological mother.
Contains all of Octavia E. Butler's short fiction and two essays, the novellas and stories are parables of our contemporary world, pitting human frailty and social and environmental decay against residual strengths of human character and human history.
