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| Books LLC : Novels by Octavia Butler (Study Guide): Survivor, Kindred, Lilith's Brood, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, Parable of the Talents, Wild Seed | |
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Novels by Octavia Butler (Study Guide): Survivor, Kindred, Lilith's Brood, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, Parable of the Talents, Wild Seed |
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English |
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Paperback |
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32 |
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2010-09-14 |
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1156856795 |
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Books LLC |
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0.15 pounds |
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5.8 x 8.7 x 0.2 inches |
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Survivor, Kindred, Lilith's Brood, Parable of the Sower, Fledgling, Parable of the Talents, Wild Seed. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Survivor is a science fiction novel by Octavia Butler. First published in 1978 as part of Butler's "Patternist series," Survivor is the only one of Butler's early novels not to be reprinted after its initial editions. Butler expressed dislike for the work, referring to it as "my Star Trek novel." Survivor follows the early contact between the Missionaries, a group of human colonists fleeing a plague on Earth, and the Kohn, intelligent natives of the planet on which the Missionaries have arrived. In particular, the novel focuses on Alanna, the adopted daughter of the Missionaries' leader, as she attempts to prevent the Missionaries' destruction or assimilation at the hands of a dominant local culture. During the course of the novel, Alanna's experiences assimilating and negotiating with the Kohn draw upon her earlier, similar experience joining the Missionaries themselves, and Alanna's ability to interact with the various cultures becomes the key to their survival. Although set within the broader plot of the Patternist series, the entire plot of Survivor is largely separated from the events of the other books in the series. Butler begins the novel in medias res, during the "rescue" of the main character, Alanna, from the "Tehkohn," a group of extraterrestrials. Although the main narrative follows Alanna's perspective after the rescue, Butler also inserts a series of flashbacks, some of them from the perspective of other characters. Through this literary device, the readers learn about Alanna's past gradually, even as they follow the efforts of the other characters to discover that pa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8447308
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