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Survivor

Survivor

DystopianPost-Apocalyptic
Pages
192
Published
1978
Language
English

Synopsis

Alanna, a young Black woman, is among the last survivors of humanity, taken to an alien planet by the Garkohn. To survive, humans must adapt to the Garkohn's parasitic symbiosis, a process that transforms them. Alanna struggles with this forced evolution, navigating a new world where her very identity is challenged.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

GrittyThought-ProvokingTense
SurvivalFirst ContactFish Out of Water

Genres

Dystopian Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

About the author

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Octavia E. Butler

An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. [Comment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian][1]: Octavia E Butler (1947–2006) > I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her...