From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years.
When Alanna flees a plague-scarred Earth to a new planet, she believes she has found a peaceful new home for humanity. Instead, she finds herself caught between two battling civilisations - the Kohn and Tehkohn.
Now she must play a dangerous game to survive.
Make alliances, while plotting betrayals. Assimilate, while retaining her humanity. Open her heart, while risking everything.
Alanna knows that the mission of her fellow colonists is to preserve the human race. But what if the best way to retain her humanity is to leave it all behind?
A PATTERNIST NOVEL
This long-awaited new volume includes new essays from scholar and the Huntington Library's Octavia E. Butler Fellow, Alyssa Collins, along with 'A Necessary Being' - the only short fiction set in the Patternist universe, completing the Patternist series for readers everywhere.
| ISBN: | 9781035444229 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2026 |
| Author: | Octavia E Butler |
| Publisher: | Headline an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Speculative fiction Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction Classic science fiction |
From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years.
When Alanna flees a plague-scarred Earth to a new planet, she believes she has found a peaceful new home for humanity. Instead, she finds herself caught between two battling civilisations - the Kohn and Tehkohn.
Now she must play a dangerous game to survive.
Make alliances, while plotting betrayals. Assimilate, while retaining her humanity. Open her heart, while risking everything.
Alanna knows that the mission of her fellow colonists is to preserve the human race. But what if the best way to retain her humanity is to leave it all behind?
A PATTERNIST NOVEL
This long-awaited new volume includes new essays from scholar and the Huntington Library's Octavia E. Butler Fellow, Alyssa Collins, along with 'A Necessary Being' - the only short fiction set in the Patternist universe, completing the Patternist series for readers everywhere.
Survivor features in the following genres: Speculative fiction, Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction, Classic science fiction
Survivor is available in Paperback, Hardback
Survivor was written by Octavia E Butler and published by Headline an imprint of Headline Publishing Group
Survivor has 320 pages
£18.00