Octavia Butler Books

Kindred

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

“The novel is narrated by Dana,  a Black writer  is transported from 1976 back to a slave plantation in the Antebellum South, where she meets two of her ancestors: the White son of the slave owner, and a young free Black woman, who is eventually trapped,  enslaved and made his concubine. Dana struggles to survive in this hostile world, and has to... Read more

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler is a powerful and thought-provoking tale of survival, resilience, and the search for hope in a world unraveling from climate disasters and social collapse. With unforgettable characters and profound insights, Butler’s vision of the future challenges readers to consider the importance of community,... Read more

La parábola del sembrador

By: Octavia Butler
Narrated by: Tania Martínez
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Esta aclamada novela post-apocalíptica de esperanza y terror de un autor galardonado "combina bien con 1984 o The Handmaid's Tale"e incluye un prólogo de N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).

Cuando el cambio climático global y las crisis económicas conducen al caos social a principios de la década de 2020, California se llena de... Read more

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed: Book #2

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Patricia R. Floyd, Sisi Aisha Johnson & Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Best-selling author Octavia E. Butler's acclaimed novels have won numerous awards, and she is a recipient of a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Parable of the Talents was selected as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of horrifying... Read more

La parábola de los talentos

By: Octavia Butler
Narrated by: Tania Martínez
Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Publicada originalmente en 1998, el mensaje de esperanza y resistencia frente al fanatismo de esta profética novela es más relevante que nunca. En 2032, tras perder su hogar y su familia, Lauren Olamina estableció una pacífica comunidad en el norte de California, basada en su fe recién fundada: Semilla Terrestre. En ella ofrece refugio a los... Read more

Dawn

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

“An astonishing work of imagination that presents the reader with a series of sticky, impossible questions. Among them: When your people have lost to a colonizing force, and must face the end of their self-sovereignty, culture, and identity, how do you accept the new reality and keep living? Butler explores this historically common dilemma via... Read more

Imago

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity -- before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.
Since a nuclear war decimated the human population, the remaining humans began to rebuild their future by interbreeding with... Read more

Wild Seed

Patternist: Book #1

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

DDoro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one—until he meets Anyanwu. ... Read more

Bloodchild and Other Stories

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Malik Rashad, Allyson Johnson & Bahni Turpin
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

A perfect introduction for new listeners and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in audio for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and... Read more

Adulthood Rites

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: J.D Jackson
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction.

In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race... Read more

Patternmaster

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

An all-powerful ruler's son vies for control over the human race in this brilliant conclusion to the Patternist saga, from the critically acclaimed author of Parable of the Sower.
In the far future, the human race is divided into two groups striving for power. The Patternmaster rules over all, the leader of the telepathic Patternist race whose... Read more

Clay's Ark

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.
In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare, Blake Maslin is traveling with his teenage twin daughters when their car is ambushed. Their attackers appear sickly yet possess inhuman strength, and they transport Blake's family to... Read more

Mind of My Mind

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

A young woman harnesses her newfound power to challenge the ruthless man who controls her, in this brilliant and provocative novel from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.

Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like... Read more

La estirpe de Lilith (Trilogía Xenogénesis)

Trilogía Xenogénesis: Book #0

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Juanita Delgado Jaramillo
Length: 32 hours 37 minutes

La trilogía olvidada de la gran dama de la ciencia ficción. Treinta años después de su primera publicación en castellano, La estirpe de Lilith, título que reúne la Trilogía Xenogénesis en un solo volumen, vuelve a las librerías dispuesta a reivindicar a Octavia E. Butler como la gran pionera que deslumbró en ciencia ficción siendo una mujer... Read more

Parentesco

By: Octavia E. Butler & Amelia Perez de Villar
Narrated by: Isolda Peguero
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Mas de treinta y cinco anos despues de su lanzamiento, Parentesco sigue atrayendo a nuevos lectores con su profunda exploracion de la violencia y la perdida de la humanidad causada por la esclavitud en Estados Unidos, y el impacto complejo y duradero que aun tiene este hecho historico en la actualidad. La obra mas famosa de Butler, aclamada por... Read more

Unexpected Stories

Two Novellas

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

This exciting collection presents two previously unpublished stories by SF legend Butler. "A Necessary Being" precedes the events of Survivor, Butler's third (famously disowned) installment in her Patternist series, and includes characters from it, focusing exclusively on the Kohn, aliens who build their social hierarchies on the blueness of... Read more