Description: "Butler's wide-ranging career as one of the earliest successful African American sci-fi writers is on full display in a capacious new collection from the Library of America . . . allowing both fans of Butler and those unfamiliar with her work to gain an impressively broad view of her oeuvre. . . . Perhaps most important, this collection presents some of Butler's most overtly race-conscious fiction, arriving at a time when the red scar of racism is arguably more visible than it has ever been this century, allowing the anthology to become a part of the country's urgent reflection on the astonishing depths of its racist past and present. . . . [America] needs her blunt but empathetic vision more than ever." --Gabrielle Bellot, Bookforum "The collection's variety reveals the clarity of purpose in a body of work that ranged broadly among species, genres, and millennia. Butler's great subject was intimate power, of the kind that transforms relationships into fulcrums of collective destiny." -- Julian Lucas , The New Yorker

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