![]() This first volume in the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists-“I wrote myself in,” she would later recall-establishing herself as one of the pioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. ![]() Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. 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 storiesĪn original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. ![]() Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories / ISBN 9781598536751 / 700+-page hardcover from the Library of America ![]()
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