Octavia E. Butler

'If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come…

Will humanity be forever changed? Brilliant and captivating, Dawn is the first book in the Xenogenesis trilogy by the 'grand dame of science fiction' and…

The captivating Adulthood Rites is the second novel in the Xenogenesis trilogy by the 'grand dame of science fiction' and Hugo, Locus and Nebula award-winning…

The future of both humans and Oankali rests in one young being's hands... The electrifying and unputdownable Imago is the final novel in the Xenogenesis…

'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' New Yorker…

Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of 'otherness' and questions what it means to be truly human. The first science-fiction novelist to…

The most manipulative minds on earth are establishing a new world order... The complete Patternist series - the acclaimed science fiction epic of a world…

'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' Guardian 'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as…

Set on a distant planet, Bloodchild is award-winning author Octavia E. Butler's shattering meditation on symbiosis, love, power and tough choices. It won the Hugo,…