If you haven't read the Patternist series, you're in for a treat. Short, startling, speculative afrofuturist sci-fi with characters that live and breathe. No one does it quite like Butler. I would suggest reading the series in publication order the first read through, and a few years later when you start missing all the characters you fell in love with (or hated), try in chronological order and seeking out the forbidden/renounced fifth book in the series as well.
