Octavia E. Butler

Esta aclamada novela posapocalíptica de esperanza y terror, de la galardonada escritora Octavia E. Butler, combina bien con otras obras distópicas como 1984 o El cuento de la criada. Cuando el cambio climatico global y las crisis economicas conducen al caos social a principios de la decada de 2020, California se llena de peligros, desde la escasez generalizada de agua hasta las masas de vagabundos que haran cualquier cosa para sobrevivir otro dia mas. Lauren Olamina, una joven adolescente de quince años, vive dentro de una comunidad cerrada con su padre, un predicador, su familia y sus vecinos, relativamente protegida de la anarquia circundante. En una sociedad donde cualquier vulnerabilidad es un riesgo, ella sufre de hiperempatia, una sensibilidad debilitante hacia las emociones de los demas. Precoz y lucida, Lauren debe hacer oir su voz para proteger a sus seres queridos de los desastres inminentes que su pequeña comunidad ignora obstinadamente. Pero lo que comienza como una lucha por la supervivencia pronto conduce al nacimiento de una nueva fe y a una sorprendente vision del destino humano.

Más de treinta y cinco años después de su lanzamiento, Parentesco sigue atrayendo a nuevos lectores con su profunda exploración de la violencia y la pérdida de la humanidad causada por la esclavitud en Estados Unidos, y el impacto complejo y duradero que aun tiene este hecho historico en la actualidad.La obra mas famosa de Butler, aclamada por la critica, cuenta la historia de Dana, una joven negra que de repente e inexplicablemente es transportada desde su hogar en la California de la decada de 1970 hasta la guerra civil. Mientras viaja en el tiempo entre ambos mundos, uno en el que es una mujer libre y otro en el que forma parte de su propia y complicada historia familiar en una plantacion del sur, se enreda aterradoramente en la vida de Rufus, un conflictivo esclavista que es a la vez un antepasado de Dana, y en las vidas de las muchas personas que estan esclavizadas por el.Considerada como una obra esencial dentro de los generos feminista, de ciencia ficcion y fantasia, y una piedra angular del movimiento afrofuturista, se han vendido mas de medio millon de copias de Parentesco. La interseccionalidad de la raza, la historia y el tratamiento de las mujeres abordada en este libro sigue siendo un tema critico en el dialogo contemporaneo, tanto en el aula como en la esfera publica. Inquietante, convincente y de una rica imaginacion, Parentesco ofrece una mirada inquebrantable a nuestra complicada historia social.

One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth centuryJUNOT DIAZOctavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the sameGLORIA STEINEMOne woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin. When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep. Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation comes at a price - to restore humanity, it must be changed forever...PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORIn the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butlers novel may be unmatchedNEW YORKERButlers prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precisionGUARDIANOctavia Butler was a visionaryVIOLA DAVISHer evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately,what it means to be humanNEW YORK TIMESAn icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and centerVANITY FAIRButler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destructLUPITA NYONGO

Lilith Iyapo es desperta desorientada. Recorda la perdua del seu marit i el seu fill, i una guerra fratricida que ha arrasat la vida a la Terra. Pero ella ha sobreviscut. No recorda quan la van rescatar ni qui ho va fer. Ara, sana i estalvia, es sotmesa a llargs periodes de son induida i durant els ...

Esta colección de siete cuentos y dos ensayos, publicados y escritos entre los años setenta y noventa, es traducida ahora por primera vez al español. Cada texto viene acompañado de un epílogo de la autora y los ensayos aportan consejos precisos sobre la escritura. Relaciones interespecies, embarazos masculinos, una civilizacion hundida y en silencio o la responsabilidad divina de salvar el mundo: como es habitual en la obra de Octavia Butler, estas creaciones de la imaginacion son parabolas del mundo contemporaneo. Con una prosa precisa, Butler reflexiona sobre raza, familia, sexualidad, el determinismo biologico, la ciencia medica, la violencia o las clases sociales a traves de distintas metaforas que diseccionan nuestra realidad.

THE COMPLETE PATTERNIST SERIES.Unnervingly prescient and wiseYAA GYASIIncludes the novels WILD SEED, MIND OF MY MIND, CLAYS ARK and PATTERNMASTER. A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliantVIOLA DAVIS It begins when two immortals meet. Doro is an ancient spirit who changes bodies like clothes, stealing the life from his hosts. Anyanwu can shift her very shape, absorbing bullets as easily as she can heal with a kiss. Their relationship, an epic story of love and hate which spans centuries, will change everything. Over hundreds of years, Doro pursues perfection, attempting to create a master race of people with the most manipulative of minds. But the Patternists are becoming increasing harder to control, and harder to hide from the world...In these four novels, New York Times-bestselling author Octavia E. Butler tells the classic story that began her legendary career: a mythic tale of the transformation of humanity.One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century JUNOT DIAZI have never read anything like itRUSSELL TOVEYAn icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center VANITY FAIR

Lilith Iyapo, una dona afroamericana a la trentena, es desperta desorientada. Recorda la pèrdua del seu marit i el seu fill, i una guerra fratricida i global que ha arrasat la vida a la Terra. També

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

Els humans i els oankali s’han estat aparellant des que els alienígenes van arribar per primera vegada a la Terra per rescatar els pocs supervivents d’una guerra nuclear aniquiladora. Els oankali van

Lilith Iyapo, una dona afroamericana a la trentena, es desperta desorientada. Ha perdut el deu marit i el seu fill en una guerra fratricida i global que ha arrasat la vida a la Terra. Lilith és sotmesa a llargs periodes de son induida, i quan es desperta ho fa en una habitacio sens finestres ni portes. Qui son els seus captors? Per que l'han rescatat? Que ha passat amb la Terra?

2032. Célèbre créatrice de jeux virtuels, Asha découvre le journal dans lequel sa mère Lauren a posé les bases de sa philosophie humaniste et pacifiste. Dans une Amérique au comble du chaos qui renou

Set on a distant planet, Bloodchild is award-winning author Octavia E. Butlers shattering meditation on symbiosis, love, power and tough choices. It won the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and Science Fiction Chronicle awards and is widely regarded as one of her greatest works. Perfect for fans of the thrilling Arrival and the works of Ursula Le Guin. Butler graces new mansions of thought with her eloquent, distinguished and poignant prose. Although this book is little in size, its ideas are splendidly largeBooklist One of the most significant literary artists of the 20th century Junot Diaz Years ago, a group known as the Terrans left Earth in search of a life free of persecution. Now they live alongside the Tlic, an alien race who face extinction; their only chance of survival is to plant their larvae inside the bodies of the humans.When Gan, a young, boy, is chosen as a carrier of Tlic eggs, he faces an impossible dilemma: can he really help the species he has grown up with, even if it means sacrificing his own life?What readers are saying about BLOODCHILD:The best short story Ive ever read. Utterly compelling, disturbing, intimateAbsolutely amazing. A must-read for Sci-Fi loversWonderfully written, masterfully built and oh so thought-provoking, Bloodchild is everything you could wish for in a work of science fiction

This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" ("Los Angeles Herald Examiner").

Octavia E. ButlerThe sequel to "Parable of the Sower", this novel continues the story of Lauren Olamina, as told by her estranged daughter. As the U.S. continues its rapid slide toward a far-right religious hegemony, already insular communities are further split, and a young woman tries to come to terms with her place in a frightening new world.

Octavia E. ButlerThis lyrically written work of social science fiction is set in near-future Los Angeles. Intelligent and independent-minded teenager Lauren Olamina transcends her violent, impoverished city and a debilitating physical condition by creating a philosophy called Earthseed, which posits that the most dependable principle of the universe (i.e., God) is Change, Change must be embraced, and the destiny of humanity is to spread out among the stars. When the have-nots rise up against the haves and destroy her community, she encourages her fellow refugees to find hope through practicing Earthseed.

Octavia E. ButlerAlthough published first, PATTERNMASTER takes place many years after CLAY'S ARK and MIND OF MY MIND, and draws elements from both books. On a far-future Earth, a society of psychics telepathically linked together and ruled by a mental structure called the Pattern tyrannize over those without psychic powers (the "mutes") and battle the alien/human hybrids known as Clayarks. The most powerful telepath, the Patternmaster, controls the Pattern; as Rayal, the current Patternmaster, ages, two of his sons fight to become his successor.

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 if his breeding project has reached its culmination with Mary, a strong potential telepath. After completing her "transition," the painful process of maturing into her mental powers, she instinctively creates a "Pattern," a web of psychic force ...

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 abilityand responsibilityto save humanity from itself?Like all of Octavia Butlers 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 literatures strongest voices.