Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTButler, Octavia E.
Summary: ""There's no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There's no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers-at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be." Legendary science fiction writer and Afrofuturist pioneer Octavia Butler wrote the essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" in the year 2000 for publication in Essence magazine. More than two decades...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BUTDuffy, Damian
Summary: In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUTCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DUFSons of Kemet.
Contents: Track Listing: In Memory Of Samir Awad -- In The Castle Of My Skin -- Tiger -- Mo' Wiser -- Breadfruit -- The Hour Of Judgement -- The Long Night Of Octavia E Butler -- Afrofuturism -- Play Mass.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naim Jazz 2016