BLB Octavia Butler Book Club

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 7:00pm

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Continue reading with us and our Octavia E Butler Book Club! Grab and read "Fledgling" then join us on Monday, April 10th at 7pm at Brain Lair books. 

About Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler's final novel 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. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself.

"A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of human nature." —The Washington Post

About Octavia E. Butler

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.

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Fledgling By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$15.29
ISBN: 9781538724583
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 1st, 2022

Octavia E. Butler's final novel 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.


Fledgling By Octavia E. Butler, Nisi Shawl (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Octavia E. Butler, Nisi Shawl (Introduction by)
$27.95
ISBN: 9781644211298
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Published: Seven Stories Press - February 1st, 2022

Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.


Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (LOA #338) By Octavia Butler, Gerry Canavan (Editor), Nisi Shawl (Editor) Cover Image
By Octavia Butler, Gerry Canavan (Editor), Nisi Shawl (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781598536751
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Published: Library of America - January 19th, 2021

The definitive edition of the complete works of the "grand dame" of American science fiction begins with this volume gathering two novels and her collected stories


Parable of the Talents By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$16.19
ISBN: 9781538732199
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - August 20th, 2019

Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever.


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Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$15.29
ISBN: 9781538732182
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - April 30th, 2019

This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).


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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation By Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy (Adapted by), John Jennings (Illustrator), Hopkinson Nalo (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy (Adapted by), John Jennings (Illustrator), Hopkinson Nalo (Introduction by)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781419754050
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Published: Abrams ComicArts - July 6th, 2021

2021 Hugo Award Winner for Best Graphic Story or Comic

The graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, the follow-up to Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller

In this graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E.


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Parable of the Sower: A Novel By Octavia E. Butler, Gloria Steinem (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Octavia E. Butler, Gloria Steinem (Introduction by)
$24.00
ISBN: 9781609807191
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Published: Seven Stories Press - February 28th, 2017

A New York Times Book of the Year · Nebula Award nominee · Featuring an introduction by Gloria Steinem

From the pioneering New York Times bestselling science fiction author of Kindred.


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Kindred By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807083697
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Published: Beacon Press - February 1st, 2004

From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner

The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.


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