Survivor

by Butler, Octavia

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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Published by Doubleday in 1978, the first edition of Survivor has "First edition" stamped on the copyright page, and a $6.95 price stamp on the front flap of the dust jacket. 

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1979
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated, first printing; a review and association copy. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and with publisher's slip taped to front free endpaper. Ownership rubber stamp to front paste down reading "Library of R. and J. Coulson," Robert and Juanita… Read more about this item
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's ochre leatherette boards with titles stamped in black on the spine. Near Fine with light shelf wear and light toning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and light toning. Butler's… Read more about this item
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1979
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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… Read more about this item
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doubleday, 1978, first edition jacket only, NO BOOK, . good, would be nice, but rear smudging, darker folds,the reverse side shows some staining
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