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Возле небольшого провинциального городка, в котором раньше никогда не происходило ничего интересного, начинают проводиться археологические раскопки. В то же время некоторые жители начинают видеть странные сны и фантастические видения. Главный герой повести – Олег – в своих необычных снах становится свидетелем и даже непосредственным участником давних исторических событий. Произведение насыщено сюр...
Будущее. По всему миру свирепствовал вирус. Он наносил смертельные удары, кося людей, и столь же стремительно развивались последствия: терялась способность говорить, наступал паралич, снижение умственных способностей и смерть. За умение читать, писать или говорить могли убить. Наступал апокалипсис...
Из задуманного составителем сборника НФ-рассказов под общим заглавием «Стоянка человека». Входит в Авторский сборник — «Кровное дитя» и другие истории». (Octavia E. Butler. Bloodchild and Other Stories). Извечная тема контакта человечества с внеземными цивилизациями.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduou...
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex -- or design. He fears no one -- until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is a shapeshifter who can absorb bullets and heal with a kiss...and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one -- until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the New World, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that ...
Сборник рассказов - победителей премии Хьюго разных лет. Книга посвящается памяти Хьюго Гернсбека, в честь заслуг которого основана самая престижная премия в области научной фантастики Hugo Award.
Octavia E. Butler once gleefully described her eerie novella "Bloodchild", the title piece of Bloodchild and Other Stories as her "pregnant man story". "Bloodchild" explores the paradoxes of power and inequality and starkly portrays the experience of a class who, like women throughout most of history, are valued chiefly for their reproductive capacities. After it appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science...
In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Akin. But Akin actually has five parents: a male and female human, a male and female Oankali, and a sexless Ooloi. The Oankali and Ooloi are part of an alien race that rescued humanity from a devastating nuclear war, but the price they exact is a high one. The aliens are compelled to genetically merge ...
Contains the novels Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster. In her classic Patternist series, multiple Hugo and Nebula award winner Octavia E. Butler established themes of identity and transformation that echo throughout her distinguished career. Now collected for the first time in one volume, these four novels take readers on a wondrous odyssey from a mythic, prim/ordia...
When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny... and the birth...
Butler’s acclaimed Xenogenesis trilogy about humanity’s struggle for survival after nuclear apocalypse, and the alien race that could save the world—or destroy it The newest stage in human evolution begins in outer space. Survivors of a cataclysmic nuclear war awake to find themselves being studied by the Oankali, tentacle-covered galactic travelers whose benevolent appearance hides their surpri...
Первый и третий романы Батлер из серии ?Patternist? и роман из серии ?Приключения Лэндона Сент-Ива? Блэйлока.
Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human 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 ho...
This Nebula Award-winning sequel toParable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in socially and economically depressed California in the 2030s. Convinced that her community should colonize the stars, Lauren and her followers make preparations. But the collapse of society and rise of fanatics result in Lauren's followers being enslaved, and her daughter stolen from her. Now, Lauren mu...
his way. Human and Oankali have been mating since the aliens first came to Earth to rescue the few survivors of an annihilating nuclear war. The Oankali began a massive breeding project, guided by the Ooloi, a sexless subspecies capable of manipulating DNA, in the hope of eventually creating a perfect starfaring race. Jodahs is supposed to be just another hybrid of human and Oankali, but as he ...
The combined mind--force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power, He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition----except one. In the wild, mutant--infested hills, a young apprentice must be hunted down and destroyed because he is the ...
More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler’s mysterious and moving story, whic...
Know Thy Enemy They fled from an Earth ravaged by plague and violence, seeking to fulfill their holy mission -- to discover a new home for humanity. But instead of landing in a pace-filled paradise, Earth's Missionaries find themselves caught between two warring civilizations -- the Garkohn and Tehkohn. And only one of the people from Earth, a young girl and "converted" Missionary named Al...
...Лилит Аяпо е в Андите и оплаква смъртта на съпруга и детето си, когато война унищожава Земята. Векове по-късно тя е върната към живот... от изумително способни извънземни, които се наричат оанкали. Водени от непреодолима нужда да лекуват другите, оанкалите се опитват да спасят нашата умираща планета, като се свържат генетично с човечеството. Лилит и останалата част от човечеството са обречени д...
