Octavia E. Butler

In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin....

In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact....

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Octavia E. Butler paints a stunning portrait of an all-too-believable near future....

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland....

Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying depravity....

This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire....

Child of two species, but part of neither, a new being must find his way....

In a violent near-future, Asa Elias Doyle and her companions encounter an alien life form so heinous and destructive, they exile themselves in the desert so as not to contaminate other humans....

The Patternist is a telepathic race, commanded by the Patternmaster, whose thoughts can destroy, heal, rule....

For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing bodies, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him....

Six remarkable stories from a master of modern science fiction....

For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock....

This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Octavia E. Butler....