Bøger af Octavia Butler

Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. 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, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him. Held up as an essential work in feminist, science-fiction, and fantasy genres, and a cornerstone of the Afrofuturism movement, there are over 500,000 copies of Kindred in print. The intersectionality of race, history, and the treatment of women addressed within the original work remain critical topics in contemporary dialogue, both in the classroom and in the public sphere. Frightening, compelling, and richly imagined, Kindred offers an unflinching look at our complicated social history, transformed by the graphic novel format into a visually stunning work for a new generation of readers.

Afrofuturismen er en relativt ny strømning indenfor fantastisk litteratur, der giver stemme til forfattere fra den afrikanske diaspora – det vil sige efterkommere af de afrikanere, der i sin tid blev bortført med vold og gjort til slaver, især i USA. Det er en litteratur der synliggør forholdene, både i historisk perspektiv og som de tager sig ud i dag. Den gør det på fantastisk vis, det vil sige ved at skrive om fremtiden, om rummet, om mystiske væsner og om ganske almindelige mennesker i specielle situationer.Denne bog er den første antologi på dansk, der præsenterer afrofuturistisk science fiction – og, da der er en vis uenighed om definitionen, også ”det der ligner”. Antologien præsenterer bl.a. en af de første forløbere for afrofuturismen i form af en post-apokalyptisk novelle fra 1920’erne; markante noveller fra forfattere som de nye afrofuturister har taget som deres forbilleder; samt historier om tid og rum, kloning, virtual reality (og sex!), tidsrejser, kunst og sameksistensen med aliens.Alle historierne er science fiction af den gode slags, der underholder under læsningen, men samtidig giver stof til eftertanke. For ud over den umiddelbare handling og de interessante personer, lægger de op til overvejelser, fx om hvordan vi tænker på andre (enkeltindivider, grupper, etniske konstellationer), på samfundet og på intet mindre end universet.Octavia Butler: BlodbarnNalo Hopkinson: Ganger (Kuglelyn)Linda D. Addison: Adskilt, sammenW. E. B. Du Bois: KometenTananarive Due: Mor og datterNisi Shawl: Maggierevie shockley: adskillelsesangstKalamu ya Salaam: TidstranceJelani Wilson: 22XX:One-ShotSamuel R. Delany: CoronaOmkring afrofuturisme. Efterord ved Lise Andreasen og Niels Dalgaard

""There's no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There's no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers-at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be." Legendary science fiction writer and Afrofuturist pioneer Octavia Butler wrote the essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" in the year 2000 for publication in Essence magazine. More than two decades later, her honest and wise advice is just as timely and prescient, offering guideposts for anyone who wants to shape our future into something good"--

This 25th anniversary edition, about a modern black woman who is snatched away to the antebellum South, celebrates a classic work with "much to say about love, hate, slavery, and racial dilemmas, then and now" ("Los Angeles Herald Examiner").

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