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Original Title: Fledgling
ISBN: 0446696161 (ISBN13: 9780446696166)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2006), Endeavour Award Nominee (2006)
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Fledgling Paperback | Pages: 310 pages
Rating: 3.87 | 18627 Users | 2631 Reviews

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Title:Fledgling
Author:Octavia E. Butler
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 310 pages
Published:January 2nd 2007 by Grand Central Publishing (first published September 8th 2005)
Categories:Fantasy. Fiction. Paranormal. Vampires. Science Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman 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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Ratings: 3.87 From 18627 Users | 2631 Reviews

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Vampires! Sci-fi vampires! Octavia Butler! While I love Octavia Butler, I have been avoiding Fledgling for a while because Twilight* and the paranormal romance genre that followed in its wake are anathema to me. I knew of course that Ms. Butler would never slum it with Stephenie Meyer, but the subject matter is kind of spoiled for me. Still, I am running out of Octavias to read so I did not want to skip one of her - all too few novels just because of my disillusion with vampire fiction in

I admit that I wanted to like this more than I did simply because I am a big fan of Kindred. I was slightly ambivalent about another book on vampires, however, and while I tried not to take that into serious account when reading Butler, it still crept in.Mostly, however, I liked the book fine. Any major issues I have can be neatly summed up in my opinion on quasi-pedophile literature in general. It's designed to make us squirm. If it doesn't make you squirm then maybe you're reading just a tad

well, it was ok. nothing new really.

One of the best books I've read is Kindred, Octavia Butler's 1979 time travel novel. Had it been published twenty years earlier, I'm sure it would've put her on Rod Serling's radar as he scouted writers for The Twilight Zone. Butler's use of dark fantasy to dramatize issues of social injustice and racism, and explore our reaction to genocide, wrapped me up in a spell. I hesitated to read more of Butler's work, fearing it wouldn't measure up.Fledgling doesn't measure up. I scanned the second half

3.5 4 stars Another vampire book review from the guy who says hes not a fan of vampires? Yeah, well Im trying to find the good ones, not the dreck thats jumped onto the Twilight bandwagon. And quite frankly I didnt pick this one up because it was a vampire book per se, but because it was one by Octavia Butler, whose work Ive been meaning to look into more, and this is the only stand-alone that Im aware of. It turned out to be a good book, though there are some possibly problematic issues with

Ah vampires... Sexy sexy vampires... Octavia Butler used the last of her considerable writing talents to leave us with the Ina, an interesting new culture and species of vampire.The author decided to make the MC sexy vampire female.Yes, good choice.And black.Great, love diversity in stories.And ten years old.You've lost me. By the third sex scene where this little girl is joyfully plowed by an enormous hairy white twenty year old man, I decided the author had lost her mind. If this is where

Amazing