Survivor (Patternist #4 deluxe edition)

Returning to print for the first time in nearly fifty years, Survivor completes Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking Patternist series. This deluxe edition also includes the only short story set in the Patternist universe, along with new historical essays by renowned Butler scholar Alyssa Collins.

This special edition features:

• An all-new cover design and premium packaging.
• French flaps and beautifully designed full-color interior covers.
• High-quality paper with elegant deckled edges.

The Patternist novels—Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Survivor, Clay’s Ark, and Patternmaster—form Butler’s most ambitious and expansive series, spanning from seventeenth-century Africa to humanity’s distant future among the stars. Throughout the saga, rival factions develop extraordinary abilities that become powerful tools of domination and control.

Long unavailable at Butler’s own request, Survivor follows Alanna, a colonist fleeing a plague-ravaged Earth in search of a new beginning. Instead, she finds herself on a world inhabited by the alien Kohn, whose warring tribes draw her into a brutal conflict. To survive, Alanna must forge uneasy alliances, navigate dangerous betrayals, and confront an impossible choice: whether preserving her humanity ultimately means leaving it behind.

Placing the novel in its proper historical context, this long-awaited edition includes new essays by Octavia E. Butler Fellow Alyssa Collins, as well as “A Necessary Being,” the only short fiction set in the Patternist universe, bringing Butler’s epic series together in its complete form for readers everywhere.