This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Novel, Survivor , is Being Republished Survivor by Octavia E. Butler was originally published in 1978 as the third book in the Patternist series. Later, Butler derided the book as rushed and undeveloped—she wrote it on a tight deadline to fund a research trip to write Kindred . After 40 years out of print, it’s now being republished. I was initially skeptical about this, but Malia Mendez puts together good points to support the reprint in her LA Times article . For one thing, Butler didn’t specify that she never wanted Survivor to be reprinted. It’s also already been fed into AI models. If fans and academics studying Butler’s work want access to the same text, should they have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a used copy?…