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1	Fledgling more books like this by Octavia E Butler $3.15 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Octavia Butler, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship-winning SF author who explores complex moral choices in her work, puts her own spin on the popular vampire subgenre. Shori, a small person with the appearance of a 10- or 11-year-old child, awakens in a cave, terribly injured, brutally hungry, and without her memories. Gradually, she learns the ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Kindred more books like this by Octavia E Butler $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A black woman is transported through time to save the life of one of her ancestors--a white slave-owner. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Lilith's Brood more books like this by Octavia E Butler $4.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist For the first time, Butler's gripping trilogy--"Dawn, Adulthood Rites", and "Imago"--are presented in one omnibus. Butler, a Hugo and Nebula award-winner, relates the story of an alien race that comes to Earth after a nuclear holocaust and merges genetically with the human survivors. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $10.03! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Parable of the Sower more books like this by Octavia E Butler $3.85 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In near future Los Angeles a very young woman named Lauren Olamina transcends her violent impoverished city by creating a philosophy called Earthseed. When the have nots rise up against the haves and destroy her community, she encourages the survivors to practice her philosophy of love and compassion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Bloodchild and Other Stories more books like this by Octavia E Butler $3.78 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In this volume of short stories, 1995 MacArthur Genius Grant winner Octavia Butler continues to explore the compromises one must make to survive physically and emotionally within a morally complex universe. The title novella, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, concerns an unusual, painful, but unexpectedly rewarding symbiosis between ... see all copies from $3.18! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Seed to Harvest more books like this by Octavia E Butler $4.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $4.25! new only from $10.03! \| SVS
7	Good Questions for Math Teaching: Why Ask Them and What to Ask, K-6 more books like this by Peter Sullivan, Octavia E Butler $11.50 (new softcover, see detail) add to wishlist see all copies from $11.50! new only from $11.50!
8	Wild Seed more books like this by Octavia E Butler $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The first book (chronologically, not in order of publication) in the five-book Patternist saga, WILD SEED was a New York Times Notable Book for 2001 and shortlisted for a James Tiptree, Jr. Retrospective Award in 1995. Born thousands of years ago, the psychic Doro continues his existence by taking over the bodies of others. He also gathers other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Parable of the Talents more books like this by Octavia E Butler $3.26 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist Invoking a world or war-torn devastation, and with a far-right religious crusader elected as president, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn usunder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Dawn more books like this by Octavia E. Butler $6.91 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In this first book of Butler's "Xenogenesis" series, Lilith Iyapo awakens to find herself a captive on a spaceship. Her last memory is of a time centuries earlier when she was traveling in the Andes, mourning the death of her family. A nuclear war destroyed the planet, and the alien Oankali's came to rescue the survivors. But their form of rescue ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Xenogenesis by Octavia E. Butler $5.66 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $4.60! first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Mind of my mind more books like this by Octavia E Butler $13.16 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist The second book (chronologically, not in order of publication) takes place about 150 years after the end of WILD SEED. The ancient psychic Doro, who takes over the bodies of others in order to prolong his life, continues to forcibly breed other psychics together in an attempt to increase the psionic power of their descendants. Finally, it seems as ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $56.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Adulthood Rites more books like this by Octavia E Butler $3.12 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In "Dawn", the first book of Butler's "Xenogenesis" series, Lilith Iyapo was rescued from a cataclysmic nuclear war on Earth by the alien Oankali. Now she has given birth to a child who is half-human and half-Oankali. But the purebred humans resent the half-breeds. They seek to cleanse Earth of these special children who, like their Oankali ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.87! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Patternmaster more books like this by Octavia E Butler $14.95 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist An eternal battle between those with alien-corrupted genes and those without comes to a head when individuals on both sides vie to become the new leader who will take control of the Pattern and set its future course. see all copies from $11.16! new only from $22.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Clay's Ark more books like this by Octavia E. Butler $1.99 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist It is the future - a time of casual violence and criminality. When a doctor and his two daughters are kidnapped in the desert, the crime seems hardly exceptional, but the small band of emaciated people who carry out the crime certainly are. Octavia Butler won the Hugo Award in 1984 and 1985. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Imago more books like this by Octavia E Butler $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist A human gives birth to an ooloi in this third book of Butler's "Xenogenesis" series. A genderless being, an ooloi has the Oankali power to mix pure DNA within its body. Will Jodahs, the first human-spawned ooloi, mature to adulthood and fulfill its destiny as a savior of the planet? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17	Survivor more books like this by Octavia E Butler $465.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $100.00! signed copies \| first editions
18	Dawn: Xenogenesis more books like this by Octavia E Butler $5.75 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In this first book of Butler's "Xenogenesis" series, Lilith Iyapo awakens to find herself a captive on a spaceship. Her last memory is of a time centuries earlier when she was traveling in the Andes, mourning the death of her family. A nuclear war destroyed the planet, and the alien Oankali's came to rescue the survivors. But their form of rescue ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
19	How to Read the Aura, Practice Psychometry, Telepathy, and Clairvoyance more books like this by Walter Ernest Butler $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest more books like this by Grace L Dillon (Editor), Greg Bear (Contributions by), Octavia E Butler (Contributions by) $1.99 (used softcover, see detail)* add to wishlist This unique collection brings together for the first time the work of a dozen internationally prominent science fiction writers who make their home in the Pacific Northwest. Editor Grace L. Dillon's informative introduction shows how the region's culture, economy, and natural environment are reflected in the work of these different authors. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.63!
21	Adulthood Rites: Xenogenesis more books like this by Octavia Butler $30.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist In "Dawn", the first book of Butler's "Xenogenesis" series, Lilith Iyapo was rescued from a cataclysmic nuclear war on Earth by the alien Oankali. Now she has given birth to a child who is half-human and half-Oankali. But the purebred humans resent the half-breeds. They seek to cleanse Earth of these special children who, like their Oankali ... see all copies from $3.25! signed copies \| first editions
22	The evening and the morning and the night more books like this by Octavia E. Butler $275.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $124.99! signed copies \| first editions
23	Mind of my mind : science fiction more books like this by Octavia E. Butler $335.00 (used hardcover, see detail)* add to wishlist see all copies from $335.00! first editions
24	La Parabole Des Talents by Octavia E.; Tate Butler, Iawa add to wishlist see all copies from $67.38! new only from $67.38!
25	La Parabole du Semeur by Octavia E. and Rouard Butler, Philippe (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $8.99!

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