BUTLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR But salvation comes at a price – to restore humanity, it must be changed forever… Now they want Lilith to lead her people back home. Over centuries, the Oankali learned from the past, cured disease and healed the world. They spared those they could from the ruined Earth, and suspended them in a long, deep sleep.
She finds herself living among the Oankali, a strange race who intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. When Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors or windows, she remembers a devastating war, and a husband and child long lost to her. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison and Ursula K. One woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel by the bestselling, award-winning author. I think she can help each of us to do the same’ GLORIA STEINEM ‘Octavia Butler was playing out our very real possibilities as humans. Clearly, DuVernay’s Dawn couldn’t come at a better time.‘One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century’ JUNOT DIAZ Martin and HBO are optioning her fantasy novel Who Fears Death, which takes place in post-apocalyptic Sudan.
And author Nnedi Okorafor recently announced that George R.R.
Amazon recently announced that it’s developing an alternative-history series titled Black America, which re-imagines a world in which former slaves were able to claim parts of the South for themselves and form a country called New Colonia (certainly not to be confused with HBO’s Confederate). Which (a galactic supernatural immortal, just like Oprah in real life).įuturistic stories featuring black characters are starting to become more and more common, at least on TV. However, the director is remixing that children’s classic by casting a biracial girl as the lead character and filling out the cast with largely non-white stars-including Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dr. Adapting Dawn is also a fitting next project for DuVernay, who is currently wrapping up another sci-fi adaptation: A Wrinkle in Time.
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