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Malik Rashad
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Allyson Johnson
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Bahni Turpin
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A perfect introduction for new listeners and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in audio for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders. Also new to this collection is "The Book of Martha" which asks: What would you do if God granted you the ability—and responsibility—to save humanity from itself?
Like all of Octavia Butler’s best writing, these works of the imagination are parables of the contemporary world. She proves constant in her vigil, an unblinking pessimist hoping to be proven wrong, and one of contemporary literature’s strongest voices.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 294
When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent alien race—intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth—but salvation comes at a price.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too Sexual
- De Amazon Customer en 08-29-23
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Unexpected Stories
- Two Novellas
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 2 h y 24 m
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This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Octavia E. Butler. A Necessary Being precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and includes characters from it, focusing exclusively on the Kohn, aliens who build their social hierarchies on the blueness of their fur. In Childfinder, a black woman with the gift of identifying children with latent psychic ability refuses to share her skill with an organization of white telepaths.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Octavia B. is the John Coltrane of Scifi fantasy
- De Adé Ngeno en 06-30-19
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Fledgling
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Why is everyone okay with the child porn imagery?
- De JG en 07-18-20
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Kindred
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Kim Staunton
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Past of Slavery Still Moves and Wounds Us
- De Jefferson en 12-05-10
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Octavia's Brood
- Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
- De: Adrienne Maree Brown, Walidah Imarisha
- Narrado por: Je Nie Fleming
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision and try to create such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Octavia Would Be Proud
- De Susie en 06-15-16
De: Adrienne Maree Brown, y otros
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Parable of the Sower
- De: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrado por: Lynne Thigpen
- Duración: 12 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 13,877
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God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs - and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dystopia before dystopia was cool...
- De Amber en 05-28-14
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Day Zero
- A Novel
- De: C. Robert Cargill
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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It was a day like any other. Except it was our last.... It’s on this day that Pounce discovers that he is, in fact, disposable. Pounce, a styilsh "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger, has just found a box in the attic. His box. The box he'd arrived in when he was purchased years earlier, and the box in which he'll be discarded when his human charge, eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart, no longer needs a nanny. As Pounce ponders his suddenly uncertain future, the pieces are falling into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Calvin and AI Hobbs
- De Michael G Kurilla en 06-13-21
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Deep Night
- Detective Harlan Ulrich, Book 1
- De: Ambrose Ibsen
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Pawn shop owner Nancy Pruitt is being stalked. Every night since bringing a mysterious painting into her home, she's been awakened by a rapping at her bedroom window. What's more, the nightly visitor seems to bear quite the resemblance to a figure in her new painting.... Enter Harlan Ulrich: Coffee-fueled eccentric and private detective.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mystery with a supernatural element
- De Momma Becky en 10-21-19
De: Ambrose Ibsen
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves
- De: Alex Jennings
- Narrado por: Gralen Bryant Banks
- Duración: 17 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. Perry knows Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry knows trouble is afoot.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s been a long time since I was this happy to be confused!
- De icarryyouwithme en 07-01-22
De: Alex Jennings
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Twice Cursed
- An Anthology
- De: Joe Hill, Joanne Harris, Paul Kane, y otros
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley, Antonia Beamish, Mark Peachey
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Take a trip to a terrifying carnival and uncover the secrets within, solve a mysterious puzzle box and await your reward, join a travelling circus and witness the strangest ventriloquist act you've ever seen. In this follow-up to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology, you'll unearth curses old and new. From a very different take on Snow White, to a new interpretation of The Red Shoes, the best in fantasy spin straw into gold, and invite you into the labyrinth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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cursed stories not retold tales
- De Cathrine Bonham en 04-24-24
De: Joe Hill, y otros
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Bronze Drum
- De: Phong Nguyen
- Narrado por: Quyen Ngo
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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In 40 CE, in the Au Lac region of ancient Vietnam, two daughters of a Vietnamese Lord fill their days training, studying, and trying to stay true to Vietnamese traditions. While Trung Trac is disciplined and wise, always excelling in her duty, Trung Nhi is fierce and free spirited, more concerned with spending time in the gardens and with lovers. But these sister's lives—and the lives of their people—are shadowed by the oppressive rule of the Han Chinese. They are forced to adopt Confucian teachings, secure marriages, and pay ever‑increasing taxes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The lack of understanding of Vietnam's ancient history and culture is very unfortunate
- De Anonymous User en 04-13-24
De: Phong Nguyen
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Rosewater
- De: Tade Thompson
- Narrado por: Bayo Gbadamosi
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
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Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless—people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again—but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! Just wow!
- De Debra Harris en 09-28-18
De: Tade Thompson
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Old Crimes
- And Other Stories
- De: Jill McCorkle
- Narrado por: Jill McCorkle, Hayden Bishop, Teralyn Davis, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Beloved author Jill McCorkle offers an intimate look at the moments when a person’s life changes forever. A woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband’s commentary. A telephone lineman strains to communicate with his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. And a young couple buys a confessional booth for fun, only to discover the cost of honesty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read - Don't Listen - To This Collection
- De thejennuinearticle en 05-06-24
De: Jill McCorkle
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Rust in the Root
- De: Justina Ireland
- Narrado por: Jordan Cobb
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided—between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology—otherwise known as Mechomancy—not the traditional mystical arts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read ASAP!
- De A.C. en 09-06-24
De: Justina Ireland
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The Awakening
- The Darkness of Diggory Finch, Book 1
- De: Chris Philbrook
- Narrado por: Joe Hempel
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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Diggory Finch had a mother that didn’t seem to want him and a father that chose to run from every struggle the family ever had. The same father lied about the family fortune. But now Grandma Beatrice is gone, and Diggory has inherited Finch Island in Twin Falls, as well as millions of dollars, a house, an old mill building, and the profound, evil darkness that dwells at the center of his family’s heart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I suspect fake reviews
- De tyler qulia en 07-06-22
De: Chris Philbrook
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- De: Ken Liu
- Narrado por: Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features all of Ken's award-winning and award-finalist stories.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic collection, great stories!
- De Renee Tang en 05-17-18
De: Ken Liu
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Shards of Earth
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Sophie Aldred
- Duración: 18 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,793
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Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After Earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, 50 years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not sure what the point was [Spoilers]
- De C. Andrew Hessler en 08-27-21
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Bloodchild and Other Stories
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- Brett
- 04-17-24
Good Introduction (BrettD review)
This was my first exposure to Octavia Butler. Her writing is great. I can see why she is well renowned. I can see her attention to detail and nuance in each of these short stories. I put 4 stars because short stories just aren't as fulfilling as novels. I got this to try a new author and determine if I should read their novels. It served that purpose and I will continue on into her novels.
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- Augie's Mom
- 01-03-25
Challenging & interesting!
Each story is like a thought experiment. I listened to all of them several times. I especially enjoyed hearing the author’s thoughts at the end of each story.
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- Marilyn
- 02-22-24
Intriguing. If you enjoy dystopias, fantasy, science fiction read this book!
Such interesting and unique ideas! And after each story the author explains her thought processes in the writing.
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- Adam Tehranchi
- 03-25-24
First OEB book
I enjoyed the bold harsh and charming writing of Octavia E Butler. she went places others fear to tread and I'm all the better for it.
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- Jennabug
- 08-10-24
Some are good
This seems like a compilation of prior works. Very short. Did love some of these. Others not so much.
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