Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Hardcover) by Octavia Butler

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 More about Octavia E. Butler  An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. 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 thepioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. 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.    Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories by Octavia E. Butler  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