{"title":"Octavia E. Butler","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"kindred","title":"Kindred","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1979, Octavia E. Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKindred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e begins with a startling declaration: a Black woman has returned from a journey through time without her left arm. The woman is Dana, a writer living in 1970s California, who finds herself repeatedly transported to an antebellum plantation in Maryland, where she must save the life of Rufus Weylin, a white boy who is also her ancestor. As the journeys become increasingly dangerous, Dana is forced to confront the brutal realities of slavery and the precariousness of her own survival, while her white husband, Kevin, is drawn into the past alongside her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlending the conventions of science fiction with the historical novel, Butler creates an unusually immediate encounter with the legacy of American slavery. Through Dana’s experiences, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKindred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e examines race, power, complicity, family and the ways history continues to shape the present. Widely regarded as one of Butler’s defining works, it is a landmark of speculative fiction and a powerful contribution to the tradition of the neo-slave narrative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Octavia E. Butler, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKindred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKindred\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Stephen Kearse, The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64192904790346,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"parable-of-the-sower","title":"Parable of the Sower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in 1993, Octavia E. Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e imagines a near-future California fractured by climate catastrophe, poverty and social collapse. Told through the journal of fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina, the novel follows her life inside a walled community outside Los Angeles, where insecurity is mounting and the protections of ordinary society are steadily disappearing. When violence destroys the fragile world she has known, Lauren sets out north with a small group of survivors, carrying the beginnings of a new spiritual philosophy she calls Earthseed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eButler’s vision of a society unravelled by inequality, environmental destruction and political extremism is both unsettling and remarkably prescient. Through Lauren’s extraordinary capacity to feel the pain of others, the novel explores vulnerability, adaptation, belief and the difficult work of building community. The first book in Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarthseed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e series, it is a landmark of Afrofuturist and speculative fiction, combining the urgency of a survival narrative with a profound meditation on change and human possibility.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A tree cannot grow in its parents’ shadows.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Octavia E. Butler, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A gripping tale of survival and a poignant account of growing up sane in a disintegrating world.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Gerald Jones, The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64192957317450,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"dawn","title":"Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1987, Octavia E. Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDawn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e opens with Lilith Iyapo awakening in an unfamiliar room, centuries after a nuclear war has devastated Earth. She soon discovers that humanity has been rescued by the Oankali, an alien species whose extraordinary biology and unsettling plans for the human survivors challenge everything she understands about identity, autonomy and the body. Chosen to help prepare other survivors for life beyond their destroyed world, Lilith must navigate the uneasy position of being both humanity’s representative and its apparent betrayer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first novel in Butler’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eXenogenesis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e trilogy, later published together as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLilith’s Brood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDawn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings her characteristic interest in power, hierarchy, race and gender into a richly imagined first-contact narrative. Its aliens are neither simple invaders nor benevolent saviours, and Butler uses their encounter with humanity to question what it means to be human—and what survival might demand in return. Both unsettling and intellectually adventurous, the novel remains a landmark of feminist science fiction and Afrofuturist literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“If you hear nonsense like that often enough for long enough, you begin to believe it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Octavia E. 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