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Hardcover:
9781609807214 | Seven Stories Pr, November 8, 2016, cover price $45.00
Hardcover:
9780385150590 | Beacon Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Inexplicably pulled pack in time to the antebellum South, a comtemporary Black woman, raised in the age of Civil Rights and Black Power, must confront the harsh realities of Black history in America
9780807083109 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, December 28, 2008), cover price $26.95 | also contains Kindred
Paperback:
9780807083697 | 25 anv edition (Beacon Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
9780671834838 | Pocket Books, January 1, 1981, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: Inexplicably pulled back in time to the antebellum South, a contemporary Black woman, raised in the age of Civil Rights and Black Power, must confront the harsh realities of Black history in America
Miscellaneous:
9780807083703 | Beacon Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | also contains Kindred
Prebinding:
9781435290051 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $24.00 | also contains Kindred
9781417629411 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $28.20 | also contains Kindred | About this edition: Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
Hardcover:
9780385151603 | Doubleday, July 1, 1980, cover price $16.95
Paperback:
9780446676977 | Grand Central Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: An entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex, Doro fears no one until he meets Anyanwu, who can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves.
9780446606721 | Aspect, February 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: While attempting to move his people--a group of psychic witches--to the New World, four-thousand-year-old Doro encounters Anyanwu, a woman who refuses to submit to his control
Prebinding:
9781439501689 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $15.99
9780613175999 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $14.10
9780613911641 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: While attempting to move his people--a group of psychic witches--to the New World, four-thousand-year-old Doro encounters Anyanwu, a woman who refuses to submit to his control
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9780446676106, titled "Lilith's Brood" | Grand Central Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: In an anthology of threee science fiction novels, all of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth.
Prebinding:
9781439501696, titled "Lilith's Brood" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $27.99
9780613279413, titled "Lilith's Brood" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $31.80 | About this edition: In an anthology of threee science fiction novels, all of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth.
Hardcover:
9780783894027 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 2001), cover price $26.95
9781888363111 | Seven Stories Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An anthology of science fiction tales by the African-American writer includes 'Speech Sounds,' 'Near of Kin,', 'Bloodchild.
9781568580555, titled "Bloodchild: And Other Stories" | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by a celebrated African American female science fiction author includes the award-winning title story, 'Bloodchild,' a parable about the treatment of women throughout history
Paperback:
9781583226988, titled "Bloodchild: And Other Stories" | 2 edition (Seven Stories Pr, October 1, 2005), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories by a celebrated African American female science fiction author includes the award-winning title story, 'Bloodchild,' a parable about the treatment of women throughout history.
9781888363364, titled "Bloodchild: And Other Stories" | Seven Stories Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: An anthology of science fiction tales by the African-American writer includes 'Speech Sounds,' 'Near of Kin,', 'Bloodchild.
Prebinding:
9781435293816, titled "Bloodchild: And Other Stories" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.00 | also contains Bloodchild and Other Stories
Lauren Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
Hardcover:
9781888363814 | Seven Stories Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Lauren Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
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9780446610384 | Reprint edition (Aspect, November 1, 2001), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In the sequel to the acclaimed Parable of the Sower, Lauren Olamina's daughter Larkin describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war wracks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative, religious crusader becomes president.
9780446675789 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
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9780606218542 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $22.67 | About this edition: Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
Prebinding:
9781435245440 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $21.99
9780613914314 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
Hardcover:
9780941423991 | Four Walls Eight Windows, November 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on a perilous journey northward
9781888363258 | Seven Stories Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on a perilous journey northward
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9780446675505 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
9780446601979 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, February 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on a perilous journey northward
Prebinding:
9781435242470 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $22.99 | also contains Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Sower
Paperback:
9780446698900 | Grand Central Pub, January 5, 2007, cover price $19.00
Hardcover:
9781583226902 | Seven Stories Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A young girl suffering from amnesia wakes up to find that she's actually a middle-aged vampire.
Paperback:
9780446696166 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, January 2, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Shori, a seemingly young, amnesiac girl with frightening inhuman abilities and a thirst for blood, wanders the land, unaware that she is really a genetically altered, fifty-three-year-old vampire with a unique ability to walk in the light of day and that she is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her community, searching for who she is and who wants to destroy her.
Miscellaneous:
9780759516342 | Grand Central Pub, January 1, 2007, cover price $9.99
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781574535303 | Unabridged edition (Audio Literature, October 1, 2002), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A collection of futuristic tales includes 'Pillar of Fire' by Ray Bradbury, 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow' by Kurt Vonnegut, and ''Repent, Harlequin!
Hardcover:
9780446513630 | Grand Central Pub, May 1, 1987, cover price $1.00 | About this edition: The human race, now infertile, fights to maintain its identity when the alien species, Oankali, offers to trade genetic material and bioengineering at the price of metamorphosing a new kind of being
Paperback:
9780446603775 | Reprint edition (Aspect, April 1, 1997), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Known for her African-American feminist perspective, the author presents the first installment of a trilogy exploring the death of the earth as we know it and the advent of interbreeding between humans and extraterrestrials.
9780445207790 | Reprint edition (Popular Library, July 1, 1994), cover price $5.50 | also contains Vertrek | About this edition: The human race, now infertile, fights to maintain its identity when the alien species, Oankali, offers to trade genetic material and bioengineering at the price of metamorphosing a new kind of being
Hardcover:
9780446514729 | Grand Central Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $19.95
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9780446603638 | Reissue edition (Aspect, April 1, 1997), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The conclusion of the Xenogenesis trilogy chronicles the life of Jodahs, the offspring of human parents and an alien whose mission is to function as a gene trader in a human world increasingly hostile to aliens.
9780445209770 | Questar, February 1, 1990, cover price $5.99 | also contains Experimentalphysik: Mechanik Und Wärme | About this edition: Jodahs is a construct, the product of human parents and an alien ooloi, living in a world of alien in-breeding, but he is less than satisfied with being less than human
9780575042391 | Victor Gollancz, December 1, 1989, cover price $12.95
Hardcover:
9780312143213, titled "Clay's Ark" | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A handful of people exposed to a disease of extraterrestrial origin combat their nearly irresistible impulse to infect others, as they struggle to make a life for themselves in self-imposed desert isolation
Paperback:
9780446603706, titled "Clay's Ark" | Aspect, December 1, 1996, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A handful of people exposed to a disease of extraterrestrial origin combat their nearly irresistible impulse to infect others, as they struggle to make a life for themselves in self-imposed desert isolation
9780441110896, titled "Clay's Ark" | Reprint edition (Ace Books, May 1, 1985), cover price $2.75 | About this edition: A handful of people exposed to a disease of extraterrestrial origin combat their nearly irresistible impulse to infect others, as they struggle to make a life for themselves in self-imposed desert isolation
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9780446603782 | Reprint edition (Aspect, July 1, 1995), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: In the sequel to 'Dawn,' Akin, the son of Lilith, struggles to cope with his dual human and alien Oankali legacy while preparing for the time of metamorphosis when he will take on the form of future human beings
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9780446362818 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, May 1, 1995), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: A telepathic race is ruled by the strong mind of the Patternmaster, but his ruthless son craves the ultimate power of the position and has murdered everyone who stands in his way except a final victim--his younger brother
9780380418060 | Avon Books, January 1, 1979, cover price $1.75 | also contains Mexico Essential Soul
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9780446361880 | Reprint edition (Grand Central Pub, August 1, 1994), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A young ghetto telepath launches a psychic struggle against the four-thousand-year-old immortal who has been her father, lover, master, and creator to free her fellow telepaths.
Hardcover:
9780446514224 | Grand Central Pub, June 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In the sequel to 'Dawn,' Akin, the son of Lilith, struggles to cope with his dual human and alien Oankali legacy while preparing for the time of metamorphosis when he will take on the form of future human beings
Hardcover:
9780385133852 | Doubleday, March 1, 1978, cover price $6.95
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