TY - ABST T1 - “The Book of Martha” Y1 - 2003 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

God gives a black woman, raised poor in the U.S., the task of improving the lives of humanity. She discusses several possibilities with God before choosing to have people dream their utopia. In the “Afterword” she calls this her “utopia story.”

JF - Bloodchild and Other Stories PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York VL - 2nd ed N1 -

Rpt. without the “Afterword” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 135-50; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 696-715, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (773).

Originally published May 21, 2003, on SciFi.com, which is no longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. see her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books. 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746. 

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Rpt. in her Lilith's Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. See her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books, 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books, 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.

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Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248

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