Dawn, Octavia Butler. Popular Library, 1988.
Vintage paperback. Some creasing to cover. Some scratches to spine. Previous price written in pen on first page. No other markings inside. Very good condition.
Octavia Butler was an American science fiction writer, and one of the first few Black women in the field. She worked to reshape traditional fantasy and sci-fi by writing about gender, race, power, oppression, and passive resistance. Butler is considered a visionary and pioneer in the development of Afrofuturism.
After she wrote Dawn in 1987, her publisher insisted on putting two white women on the cover of the novel, whose protagonist is Black...