Notes: Updated version of earlier ebook with additional peripheral content. Data from Kindle ebook originally downloaded from Amazon UK on 2021-09-04, but silently updated some time since aforementioned earlier publication was verified on 2021-11-20. Copyright page indicates this version became available during 2022. Additional data from Kobo (GB) as of 2023-06-11. Price is RRP as listed on publisher's site; price at Amazon UK and Kobo (GB): £4.99. Print length of 321 pages reported by Kindle device; Kobo reports 303 pages/82k words. Details from copyright page: Copyright © 1987 by Octavia E. Butler Reading group guide copyright © 2021 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. Excerpt from Adulthood Rites copyright © 1988 by Octavia E. Butler First published in 1987 by Warner First published in Great Britain in 2014 by HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (NB: this is somewhat misleading, as there were Gollancz editions in 1987) This ebook edition published in 2022 by HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP ISBN 978 1 4722 1472 0 Cover design and illustration by Jim Tierney Author photograph © Andrew Porter HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP / An Hachette UK Company