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Beschreibung
From the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Parable of the Sower, an epic, sensual, and disturbing afrofuturistic trilogy of human transformation—presented for the first time in a single volume.

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 beings called the Oankali.

Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children.

This is their story ...

Includes an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D.
From the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Parable of the Sower, an epic, sensual, and disturbing afrofuturistic trilogy of human transformation—presented for the first time in a single volume.

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 beings called the Oankali.

Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children.

This is their story ...

Includes an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D.
Über den Autor
OCTAVIA E. BUTLERwas a renowned writer who received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Genre: Importe, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780446676106
ISBN-10: 0446676101
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Butler, Octavia E
Hersteller: Grand Central Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 131 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Octavia E Butler
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2000
Gewicht: 0,582 kg
Artikel-ID: 121021468