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Fans of Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler will find 24 titles here, all united by Genetic Engineering, Alien Contact, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic. Authors represented include Octavia E. Butler, Neal Stephenson, Nicholas Sansbury Smith, L. Ron Hubbard, and others.