Pub Date: January 10, 2017
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2016940630
Lexile Code: 0430
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 13 to UP
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 9.50" L x 6.90" W ( 1.95 lbs) 256 pages
BISAC Categories:
Comics and Graphic Novels | Literary | Historical Fiction | General | Science Fiction | Adaptations | Dystopian
Description: Based on the novel by Octavia E. Butler in which a young black woman is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South.
Brief description: Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006), often referred to as the "grand dame of science fiction," was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena City College, and also attended California State University in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Butler was the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Fellowship ("genius" grant). She won the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nebula and Hugo Awards, among others. Her books include Wildseed, Imago, and Parable of the Sower.
Review Quotes:
"Butler's evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human."
-- "The New York Times"