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Story summary
- Grand Central Publishing will release Octavia E. Butler’s novel Survivor on September 1, 2026.
- Estate manager Jules Jackson and agent Merrilee Heifetz said denying readers the book would be unjust, prompting the reprint.
- Alyssa Collins, Huntington Library’s Octavia Butler fellow, wrote the introduction and added Butler’s short story “A Necessary Being” to the edition.
- Survivor first appeared in 1978 as a rushed Patternist novel that Butler later barred from reprint.
