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Fledgling


A Science Fiction Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Vampires,
  • Amnesia
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Vampire stories with genetic engineering and amnesia
  • Unsettling explorations of identity and otherness
  • Brutal, poetic prose that digs into human nature

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When Shori wakes up alone in the woods, she has no memory of who she is or what happened to her. But she quickly discovers that she is not like other people. She’s a genetically modified vampire with a price on her head. Butler’s prose is brutal and poetic, stripping away everything but the unflinching duality of how beautiful and horrifying human nature can truly be.

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Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.

Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself.

Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.

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