New York: Warner, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second book in the Xenogenesis trilogy , and the hardest one to find. SIGNED on title page. Although Butler was the first science fiction writer to receive a McArthur "genius" award, it is only now, many years after her too-early death at 58, that her writing is beginning to receive the recognition it deserves - both for the way in which she combined slavery narratives with elements like time travel and alien cultures and for the way in which her dystopian novels prefigured the world we are beginning to live in. ISBN: 0-446-514225.