The other possibilities seemed marginally less ridiculous.” “Along with the possibility that I might be in prison, in an insane asylum, in the hands of the FBI, the CIA, or the KGB. You’re one of the few English speakers who never considered that she might be in the hands of extraterrestrials.” Since she was looking at him-it-she frowned. She moved back against the bed, but did not sit down. She jumped because that was what she had almost said. She took a step closer to him, then stopped. RELATED: Black Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors You Need to Read ‘Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing.Now she stood up, staring hard at him, wishing for more light. ‘An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center’ VANITY FAIR What it means to be human’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, ‘Octavia Butler was a visionary’ VIOLA DAVIS ‘Butler’s prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision’ GUARDIAN ‘In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time… for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel may be unmatched’ NEW YORKER

BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR But salvation comes at a price – to restore humanity, it must be changed forever… Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep.

She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. I think she can help each of us to do the same’ GLORIA STEINEM ‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. ‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century’ JUNOT DIAZ

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