Seattle Reads: Read Deeper
If you're enjoying the 2024 Seattle Reads book "Parable of the Sower" and want to read authors inspired by or who inspired Octavia Butler, check out these titles! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (created April 2024)
-
Octavia's Brood
Collects twenty stories that explore the relationship between movements for social change and speculative fiction.
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
View Octavia's Brood -
Do You Dream of Terra-Two?
When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization - but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Do You Dream of Terra-Two? -
Binti
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Binti -
A People's Future of the United States
If you could rebuild history, what would the United States be today? This question is answered in the works of 25 speculative authors, of whom each shows the promise—or tragedy—of what might have been or could still be. (Library Journal)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View A People's Future of the United States -
Everfair
In a world where the native populations of the Congo adopt steam technology and declare independence from King Leopold II, the land of Everfair is created to provide sanctuary for all people of African descent who are mistreated in their current homelands.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Everfair -
Sorrowland
Fleeing from the strict religious compound where she was raised, Vern, in the safety of the forest, gives birth to twins, and to keep her small family safe, unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Sorrowland -
So Long Been Dreaming
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour. (Catalog description)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View So Long Been Dreaming -
Rosewater
In this futuristic thriller set in the middle of the 21st century, a Nigerian psychic goes up against aliens, criminals, and bizarre phenomena while coping with an increasingly weird world. (Publishers Weekly)
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View Rosewater -
The Lesson
The people of the U.S. Virgin Islands tensely coexist with an alien species on an undisclosed research mission on Earth, until the death of a boy plunges three families into a conflict that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.
Format: Book
Availability: Available
View The Lesson