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New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Dustjacket. Octavo. Red boards with silver lettering to spine. Beautiful copy by the late authorl known "for blending science fiction with African American spiritualism". Though she knew she wanted to be a writer as early as the age of ten, she started writing in earnest after seeing a B-list science fiction movie. Butler eventually became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship. Her breakthrough novel was Kindred, which tells the tale of an African-American woman who travels back in time to save a white slave owner -- her own ancestor." (Biography site). "Shori is an apparently young amnesiac girl whose alarming needs and abillities lead her to a startling discovery: she is in fact a 53-year-old vampire, genetically modified to walk in the light of day..."The only survivor of a vicious attack on her community, with no memory of her past life, Shori…

Fledgling, by Octavia E. Butler, presents a unique and gripping science fiction tale that explores themes of identity and survival through the story of an amnesiac girl with extraordinary abilities.