"IF YOU HAVEN'T READ BUTLER, YOU DON'T YET UNDERSTAND HOW RICH THE POSSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE FICTION CAN BE"

BUTLER, Octavia. Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York and London: Four Walls Eight Windows, (1995). Small octavo, original yellow paper boards, original dust jacket. $1400.

First edition of this collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Kindred, signed on the title page by Octavia Butler.

Butler (1947-2006) stands as "a pioneer, an icon and one of America's best writers… the first Black female science fiction writer to reach national prominence, and the only writer in her genre to receive a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship" (Bates, "Octavia Butler"). In her groundbreaking works, Butler used "the genre as a powerful means of speaking to a range of issues including race, gender and the environment" (Los Angeles Times); the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction said "If you haven't read Butler, you don't yet understand how rich the possibilities of science fiction can be." The title piece of this collection won the Nebula, Locus and Hugo Awards for Best Novelette, "Speech Sounds" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" won the Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette.

A fine signed copy.