 | Mindscape by Andrea Hairston
Buy new: $14.63 / Used from: $0.89 Hard to get into, but so good in the end.
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 | 47 by Walter Mosley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.12 Nice chapter plates of Ursa Major and Polaris. But doesn't dispel the myth that Polaris is the brightest star in the sky. Also, neither is mentioned in the text.
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 | Dawn (Xenogenesis, Bk. 1) by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $7.56 Ouch, humanity sucks!
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 | Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, Book Two) by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: $16.23 / Used from: $3.63 Humans almost have redeeming features.
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 | Imago (Book Three of the Xenogenesis Series) by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: $14.52 / Used from: $5.41 Damn she understands humanity too well.
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 | Mind of My Mind by Octavia E. Butler
Buy used from: $17.97 Good old "hero" story.
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 | Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler
Buy used from: $4.99 Reminds me of USA 2000-2008
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 | The Ancestors by Brandon Massey
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.17 Three short stories. More speculative fiction and somewhat horror. Nice introduction to the ideas of these three authors. I would not include this in the class.
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 | My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $0.43 My first Tanarive Due book. A bit slow with heavy foreshadowing. Horror/Speculative Fiction. I would not use this in the class.
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 | Blue Light by Walter Mosley
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $0.01 Seems like an enchantment with Heroin. Interesting science fiction themes uniquely drawn. The drug connection like spice in Dune. I would not use this in my class.
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 | Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $1.00 Nice to see familiar Yoruba deities woven into a post apocalyptic story.
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