NMLP P-023025 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Survivor

Octavia E. Butler · Doubleday (Garden City, NY) · 1978

US Doubleday hardcover (1978) is the true first and the scarcest Patternist title. Butler disowned the novel and refused to authorize reprints after its initial editions, so no later hardcover trade printings exist.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-023025 for "Survivor" by Octavia E. Butler (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023025, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).