And depending on where you want to draw the line, you could include the uploadable consciousness genre of which perhaps Richard K Morgan’s Altered Carbon is a prototype. The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson is a favorite, This Immortal by Roger Zelazny is something of a classic of the genre. Butler including rare images from the author's estate. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E.
Butler's sweeping cross-century epic places her "among the best of contemporary SF writers" ( Houston Chronicle). Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Octavia E. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries and permanently alter the nature of humanity.
Though many humans have tried to kill them, these two demi-gods have never before met a rival. She is a shapeshifter, capable of healing with a kiss, and she recognizes Doro as a tyrant. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. As the acclaimed Patternist science fiction series begins, two immortals meet in the long-ago past-and mankind's destiny is changed forever.
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