Survivor
by Butler, Octavia E
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0451086732
- ISBN 13
- 9780451086730
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Signet. Very Good+. 1979. First Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 0451086732 . Signet E8673; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 187 pages; 1979 Signet E8673. Mass market paperback in glossy color pictorial covers with cover art by Paul Stinson. 1st paperback printing with complete number line on copyright page. Scarce Butler novel, never reprinted after the original editions. Snugly bound and bright with just trace shelf evidence to cover edges and very faint reader crease to spine. VG+ .
Synopsis
Survivor by Octavia Butler was published in 1978. The novel is considered part of the Patternist series, falling between Clay's Ark and Patternist in chronology. Butler refused to have it reprinted after a few early editions (it has been out of print since 1981), so it is not technically part of the series. The story focuses on Alanna, a young woman of color and the adopted daughter of 'Missionaries' fleeing the clay'sark plagued Earth. Alanna and her family find themselves on an alien planet, stuck between two warring Kohn tribes: the Garkohn and Tehkohn. Butler explained why she refused to have the novel reprinted: "When I was young, a lot of people wrote about going to another world and finding either little green men or little brown men, and they were always less in some way. They were a little sly, or a little like "the natives" in a very bad, old movie. And I thought, 'No way. Apart from all these human beings populating the galaxy, this is really offensive garbage.' People ask me why I don't like Survivor, my third novel. And it's because it feels a little bit like that. Some humans go up to another world, and immediately begin mating with the aliens and having children with them. I think of it as my Star Trek novel."
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50310
- Title
- Survivor
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451086732
- ISBN 13
- 9780451086730
- Publisher
- Signet
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0451086732
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- Good+
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