Octavia E Butler
1) Kindred
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Dana, a young modern black woman is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched 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 across the years to save him, as he will father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. After the first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect...
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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 birth of a new faith.
4) Earthseed
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In the "Parable of the Sower," an unattended environmental and economic crises leads to social chaos and Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. In the "Parable of the Talents," an African-American woman, living in an increasingly violent society, must choose between her daughter, her community, and the religious group she has recently founded.
5) Kindred
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When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.