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• Parable of the Sower

  a Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death, Lauren Olamina, an empath and the daughter of a minister, loses her family and home and ventures out into the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Talents

  a Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  In the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers -- or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lilith's Brood

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  This volume contains all three parts of the trilogy: Dawn, Imago and Adulthood Rites. Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected -- by miraculously powerful unearthly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Seed

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex -- or design. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss...and savage anyone who threatens those she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dhalgren

  Delany, Samuel R.

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  Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there…. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Einstein Intersection

  Delany, Samuel R.

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  The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Soul to Keep

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Living Blood

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  Jessica Jacobs-Wolde has survived the deaths of her husband and first daughter. But now, four years later, not only is the nightmare continuing -- it may have only just begun. Jessica has discovered the terrifying truth behind the legacy that her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Colony

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  Said to heal almost any illness, Glow gets its power from the blood of immortals, and it’s up to the Blood Colony, a small but powerful group of immortals, to keep the supplies coming so that AIDS and other diseases will be wiped out. Fana Wolde,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Soul to Take

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn’t stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Falling in Love With Hominids

  Hopkinson, Nalo

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  Whether she is retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire, in these stories Hopkinson creates bold fiction that transcends boundaries and borders.

• Sister Mine

  Hopkinson, Nalo

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  Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery that separated the two girls soon after their birth gave Abby a permanent limp, but left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Moon's Arms

  Hopkinson, Nalo

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  Calamity, a woman as contrary as the tides around her Caribbean island home, is confronting two of life's biggest dramas. First is the death of her father, who raised her alone until a pregnant Calamity rejected him when she was sixteen years old.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown Girl in the Ring

  Hopkinson, Nalo

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  The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways--farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Broken Kingdoms

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kingdom of Gods

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Binti

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  Binti is the first of the Himba people to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Binti

  Home

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people,…Read moreRead more of this annotation