02084cam a2200397 i 4500 506886471 TxAuBib 20210720120000.0 200425s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781598536751 1598536753 (OCoLC)1151752115 TxAuBib rda Butler, Octavia E.,. Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories / Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors. Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories. New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2020] xv, 774 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Library of America, The Library of America ; 338 Includes bibliographical references. This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays--including two never before collected, plus a newly researched explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler's friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction. 20210720. Science fiction​. Short stories. Essays. Canavan, Gerry,. Shawl, Nisi,. Butler, Octavia E. Butler, Octavia E. The Library of America. Library of America ; 338.