Afro-futurism

The World We Make

A Novel

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.

All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the... Read more

The City We Became

A Novel

The Great Cities: Book #1

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

“This is a fantastic read, and even better in audio. To be able to close your eyes and let the layers of story and reality wash over is enchanting. I will never look at a map again without imagining each place as a beings. Read more

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth: Book #1

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

“This book has the most high altitude world building I’ve ever seen. Tolkien may have written volumes and volumes of history of Middle Earth, but Jemisin’s world building goes beyond - considering how environment shapes culture, civilization, history, systems of oppression. At the same time, the series is so grounded in its utterly compelling... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

M Archive

After the End of the World

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm. Engaging with the work of the foundational Black feminist theorist M. Jacqui Alexander, and... Read more

Parable of the Talents

Earthseed: Book #2

By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson, Patricia R. Floyd & 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

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed: Book #1

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

“Heartbreaking, disturbing, inspiring, and powerful, Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower is the OG young adult dystopian lit, written before the genre even came into being. This book will make you stay up all night reading, and it is full of big ideas that will give you tools to face the challenges that face our world and country today and... Read more