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A whole new look for the classic novel that has sold over 450,000 copies, 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 arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
Octavia Estelle Butler, often referred to as the "grand dame of science fiction", was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena Community College and also attended California State University, Los Angeles, and UCLA. During 1969 and 1970, she studied at the Screenwriters' Guild Open Door Program and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop, where she took a class with science fiction master Harlan Ellison (who later became her mentor), and which led to Butler selling her first science fiction stories.
- 288 pages
- Softcover
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A whole new look for the classic novel that has sold over 450,000 copies, 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 arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
Octavia Estelle Butler, often referred to as the "grand dame of science fiction", was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena Community College and also attended California State University, Los Angeles, and UCLA. During 1969 and 1970, she studied at the Screenwriters' Guild Open Door Program and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop, where she took a class with science fiction master Harlan Ellison (who later became her mentor), and which led to Butler selling her first science fiction stories.
- 288 pages
- Softcover
