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Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler

Nisi Shawl & Rebecca J. Holden

First published 2013
Publisher Aqueduct Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
ISBN 9781619760370
Cover art Luisah Teish
Pages iv+314

Notes

  • First printing by number line.
  • Cover image is titled "Call for Strange Matings".
  • The ToC listing for "butler8star@qwest.net" is messed up. (butler.net 8star@quest). "Octavia E. Butler Biographical Timeline" is incorrectly called "Biographical Timeline of Butler" in the ToC.
  • The ToC is divided into four parts:
    1. (pp. 17-102) Patterns of Kinship: On Butler's Patternist Series and Kindred
    2. (pp. 103-169) Tendencies Towards Hierarchicalism and the Breakdown of Society: Butler in the 1980s
    3. (pp. 170-214) The Parables: Approaching the Millennium with Butler
    4. (pp. 215-273) New Media, New Generations, and a New Take on Vampires: Butler in the Twenty-First Century
  • Publication month from Amazon.

Awards

Year Award Category Status
2014 Locus Poll Award Best Non-Fiction Runner-up