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CLAY'S ARK.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [1984]. Octavo, printed wrappers. Advance uncorrected proof. Signed on the title page by Butler. "A returning spaceship bears an alien disease back to Earth. But this is not a standard "plague" story: only a small group of people is infected by the alien parasite, although the implication is that their transformed children will take over the Earth." Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 70. [Reference: See Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-87].
DAWN.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1987]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. First book of the "Xenogenesis" trilogy. "Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is eutopian. Aliens restore Earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-197. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001].
IMAGO.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1989]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Third book of the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, preceded by DAWN (1987) and ADULTHOOD RITES (1988). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-85. Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001].
IMAGO.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1989]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Third book of the "Xenogenesis" trilogy, preceded by DAWN (1987) and ADULTHOOD RITES (1988). [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-85. Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001].
PARABLE OF THE SOWER.
New York, London: Four Walls Eight Windows, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first Sower book. Nebula award nominee, 1994. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-199. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #33. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009.
PARABLE OF THE SOWER.
New York, London: Four Walls Eight Windows, [1993]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The first Sower book. Nebula award nominee, 1994. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-199. Broderick and Di Filippo, Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985-2010 #33. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986-2009].
WILD SEED.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Octavo, boards. First edition. "An immortal West African man meets a shape-changing 300-year-old woman; they emigrate to America, where they will breed a super-race. It sets the scene for the earlier 'Patternist' novels." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 421. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-200].
XENOGENESIS: DAWN, ADULTHOOD RITES, and IMAGO.
[New York]: Warner Books, [1987-1989]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Volumes one and three inscribed and signed by Butler on the title page, volume two signed by Butler on the title page. The three volumes of the Xenogenesis trilogy, also known as Lilith's Brood. Set in a future after a nuclear war has devastated the earth an African American woman is one of a small number of humans "rescued" by alien beings. The aliens find it beneficial to interbreed with other alien species. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-97. Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001].