Alanna, une fille de la Terre retournée à l'état sauvage, recueillie par un groupe de Missionnaires qui consacrent leur vie à perpétuer dans l'Homme l'Image Sacrée de Dieu.Dans la crainte que la race humaine disparaisse de la Terre, la Mission est expédiée sur une autre planète où vivent d'étranges humanoïdes, avec leurs moeurs, leurs querelles, leurs guerres... Enlevée lors d'un raid des Tehkohns contre les Garkohns, Alanna, se retrouve en déséquilibre entre deux espèces différentes... Que faire, protéger ses semblables ou s'intégrer à des être si différents d'elle ?Après bien des péripéties Alanna parviendra-t-elle à trouver une solution...

La Survivante

'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ
'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM
One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. Le Guin.
When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her.
She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep. 
Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. But salvation comes at a price - to restore humanity, it must be changed forever...
PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER
'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN
'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS
'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately,
what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES
'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR
'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O

Dawn

2024. Le nouveau président des États-Unis provoque une crise sans précédent. Dérèglement social et climatique, épidémies, pauvreté, violences… Dans ce décor post-apocalyptique, la barbarie règne, les murs s’élèvent. La fille d’un pasteur noir atteinte d’hyper-empathie entame la rédaction d’une Bible d’espoir et d’humanité, Le Livre des Vivants.UNE ANTICIPATION VISIONNAIRE« Une grande dame de la SF, auteure américaine majeure ayant écrit sur la question noire et dont l’œuvre foisonnante déconstruit les mythes de la technologie, de la conquête et du pouvoir. »Léa Mormin-Chauvac – LibérationAfro-américaine petite-fille d’esclaves, OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, deux fois lauréate du Prix Hugo de la nouvelle et du prix Nebula, est le premier écrivain de science-fiction honoré en 1995 du prix Génie de la Fondation Mac Arthur Grant pour son chef-d’œuvre des Paraboles du semeur et des talents. Elle est prématurément décédée en 2006 à Seattle, à 59 ans.

La Parabole du semeur (Earthseed, #1)

**'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by'  Guardian**     Octavia E. Butler's masterpiece and ground-breaking exploration of power and responsibility, for fans of  The Handmaid's Tale, The Power  and Yaa Gyasi's  Homegoing . With   an original foreword by AyO²bàmi AdebàyO².        '[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human'  New York Times          ' No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential'  The Pool        In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer.   In 1815, she is assumed a slave.    When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again.  Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them.  And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun.    Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.     What readers are saying about KINDRED:   ' It was written in 1979 but could have been written last year. Incredible. I couldn't put it down '   ' The narrator is us  -  we see the abomination and humiliation of slavery not through a slave's eyes, but our modern-day eyes ,  and it makes it all the more powerful '   'A  must-read  for everyone'  ' Emotionally and viscerally alive and challenging . I don't know how I missed it before now'

KINDRED

Depuis quatre mille années, Doro le Nubien, produit de mutations multiples et étranges, s'efforce de fonder sur Terre une nouvelle race d'hommes. A cette fin, il fait croiser les êtres des divers continents. Il crée des familles, il est père, souvent incestueux, d'une quantité d'êtres qui tous participent de lui. Mary, sa propre fille, dont il est aussi l'amant, est douée d'une puissance étonnante, celle de créer un filet, un MOTIF, télépathique qui rérénère et guérit les victimes abandonnées du système d'élevage de Doro. Cette puissance entrera bientôt en conflit avec les instincts et les appétits de Doro d'où naîtra un Combat à mort.

Le Motif (Patternist , #2)

Californie, 2025. Exclusion, misère, violence atteignent des proportions inégalées. A quinze ans, Lauren, fille d'un pasteur noir, est jetée sur les routes après le massacre de sa famille. Dans ce monde détruit, elle trace son chemin à travers le chaos, semant une parole d'espoir et de paix pour les déshérités, et plaidant pour une humanité nouvelle. Violence et humanité, aliénation et transcendance, asservissement et liberté, séparation et communauté, antiracisme... Magnifiques variations sur les grands thèmes butleriens, mais aussi inoubliables romans de résistance, La Parabole du semeur et sa suite, La Parabole des talents (Editions Au diable vauvert), prennent en ce début de millénaire, des accents d'une actualité brûlante.

'Butler writes with such a familiarity that the alien is welcome and intriguing. She really artfully exposes our human impulse to self-destruct' LUPITA NYONG'O
'An icon of the Afrofuturism world, envisioning literary realms that placed black characters front and center' VANITY FAIR
From literary pioneer Octavia E. Butler, the acclaimed Lilith's Brood trilogy concludes with the story of Jodah, child of the Earth and stars, who risks the future of humanity just by growing up.
Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before.
But Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a great but dangerous unknown.
Frightened and alone, Jodahs must come to terms with this new identity, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what's left of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival.
PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' NEW YORKER
'Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. I think she can help each of us to do the same' GLORIA STEINEM
'Butler's prose, always pared back to the bone, delineates the painful paradoxes of metamorphosis with compelling precision' GUARDIAN
'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century' JUNOT DIAZ
'Octavia Butler was a visionary' VIOLA DAVIS
'Her evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES

Imago

'A book that shifted my life... Epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant' VIOLA DAVIS on Wild Seed
'A literary pioneer' VANITY FAIR on Octavia E. Butler
A PATTERNIST NOVEL: BOOK TWO
The baby's name is Mary, and her father is immortal.
For thousands of years, Doro has pursued perfection, experimenting with humanity and seeking out rare - and powerful - talents. His finest creation is Mary, a young black woman who grows up on the rough outskirts of Los Angeles.
Doro knows he must handle Mary carefully or risk her ending like his previous experiments - dead, either by her own hand or his.
What he doesn't suspect is that Mary is beginning to learn just how much power she wields. As she comes of age, Mary must harness her newfound abilities to challenge the ruthless man who controls her - and fight to free her people once and for all.

La Survivante

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