{"title":"Octavia E. Butler","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"parable-of-the-sower-hardcover","title":"Parable of the Sower - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year - Nebula Award nominee - Featuring an introduction by Gloria Steinem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the pioneering \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling science fiction author of \u003ci\u003eKindred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe radically speculative odyssey of a young Black woman in a post-apocalyptic America and the community she cultivates despite the horrors of climate change and social inequality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe time is 2025. The place is California, where small, walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18-year-old Black woman with the hereditary train of \"hyperempathy\"--which causes her to feel others' pain as her own--sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101536096479,"sku":"9781609807191","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WGN0MEQrdDJ2ajN6ei90RzFKN281UT09.webp?v=1781071678"},{"product_id":"parable-of-the-talents-hardcover","title":"Parable of the Talents - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eParable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. 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Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101536850143,"sku":"9781609807207","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/S0ZVOWxmVzE2ZkJsZ1BoM2FrNThNdz09.webp?v=1781071680"},{"product_id":"imago-paperback","title":"Imago - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAfter the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSince a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with an alien race -- the Oankali -- who saved them from near-certain extinction. 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Frightened and isolated, Jodahs must either come to terms with this new identity, learn to control new powers, and unite what's left of humankind -- or become the biggest threat to their survival.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101585838303,"sku":"9781538753736","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M0xWSlgzMzA0MVo5cEpheHB5aXZTQT09.webp?v=1781071774"},{"product_id":"adulthood-rites-paperback","title":"Adulthood Rites - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAfter the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. 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