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Selected works
[edit]Series
[edit]- Patternmaster (Doubleday 1976; Avon 1979; Warner 1995)
- Mind of My Mind (Doubleday 1977; Warner 1994)
- Survivor (Doubleday 1978)
- Wild Seed (Doubleday 1980; Warner 1988, 2001)
- Clay's Ark (St. Martin’s Press 1984; Ace Books 1985; Warner 1996)
- Seed to Harvest (Grand Central Publishing 2007; omnibus excluding Survivor)
- Dawn (Warner 1987, 1989, 1997)
- Adulthood Rites (Warner 1988, 1977)
- Imago (Warner 1989, 1997)
- Xenogenesis (Guild America Books 1989; omnibus)
- Lilith’s Brood (Warner 2000; omnibus)
Parable series (also referred to as the Earthseed series)
- Parable of the Sower (Four Walls, Eight Windows 1993; Women’s Press 1995; Warner 1995, 2000).
- Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press 1988; Quality Paperback Book Club 1999; Women’s Press 2000, 2001; Warner 2000, 2001)
Standalone novels
[edit]- Kindred (Doubleday 1979; Beacon Press 1988, 2004).
- Fledgling (Seven Stories Press 2005; Grand Central Publishing 2007).
Short story collections
[edit]- Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1995; Seven Stories Press, 1996, 2005; second edition includes “Amnesty” and “The Book of Martha”).
- Unexpected Stories (2014, includes "A Necessary Being" and "Childfinder")
Essays and speeches
[edit]- “Birth of a Writer.” Essence 20 (May 1989): 74+. Reprinted as “Positive Obsession” in Bloodchild and Other Stories.
- "Free Libraries: Are They Becoming Extinct?" Omni 15.10 (Aug. 1993): 4.
- "Devil Girl from Mars: Why I Write Science Fiction." Media in Transition. MIT 19 February 1998. Transcript 4 October 1998.
- "“Brave New Worlds: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future.” Essence 31.1 (May 2000): 164+.
- "A World without Racism." NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. 1 September 2001.
- "Eye Witness: "Butler's Aha! Moment." O: The Oprah Magazine 3.5 (May 2002): 79–80.
Awards and honors
[edit]Winner:
- 2012: Solstice Award [1]
- 2010: Inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame [2]
- 2005: Langston Hughes Medal of The City College [3]
- 2000: Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the PEN American Center [3]
- 1999: Nebula Award for Best Novel – Parable of the Talents [4]
- 1995: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant
- 1985: Locus Award for Best Novelette- "Bloodchild" [5]
- 1985: Hugo Award for Best Novelette – "Bloodchild" [4]
- 1985: Science Fiction Awards Database – "Bloodchild" [6]
- 1985: Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette – "Bloodchild" [7]
- 1984: Nebula Award for Best Novelette – "Bloodchild" [4]
- 1984: Hugo Award for Best Short Story – "Speech Sounds" [4]
- 1980: Creative Arts Award, L.A. YWCA [5]
Nominated:
- 1994: Nebula Award for Best Novel – Parable of the Sower
- 1987: Nebula Award for Best Novelette – "The Evening and the Morning and the Night"
- 1967: Fifth Place, Writer's Digest Short Story Contest
External links
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- Octavia E. Butler Official Website
- Octavia E. Butler home page at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Education program archive/CUNY, LaGuardia Community College/The Research Paper: Octavia Butler's Fledgling (Spring 2015)/sandbox team 5 at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Octavia E. Butler at Library of Congress, with 25 library catalog records
- Octavia E. Butler home page at Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- "Octavia Butler at a Panel Discussion at UCLA in 2002." YouTube
- "Women Writing Sci-Fi: From Brave New Worlds." YouTube. Clip from 1993 TV documentary Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon featuring Robert Silverberg, Karen Joy Fowler, and Octavia Butler discussing science fiction in the 1970s
References
[edit]- ^ SF Encyclopedia Octavia Butler
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Octavia E. Butler Biographical Timeline." Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler. Ed. Rebecca J. Holden and Nisi Shawl. Aqueduct Press, 2013. ISBN 1619760371 (10) ISBN 978-1619760370 (13)
- ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b "Octavia E. Butler-About." Octavia E. Butler Official Website.
- ^ SFAD-Octavia Butler
- ^ Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Awards Winners By Year
Quotes
[edit]"I began writing about power because I had so little."
Octavia E. Butler, in Carolyn S. Davidson's "The Science Fiction of Octavia Butler."
"I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction."
Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories.
"Who am I? I am a forty-seven-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. I am also comfortably asocial—a hermit.... A pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive."
Octavia E. Butler, reading the self-penned description of herself included in Parable of the Sower during a 1994 interview with Jelani Cobb.
"Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that."
Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories.
Embrace diversity
Unite--
or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.
From "Earthseed: The Books of the Living," Parable of the Sower.
To survive,
Know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.
From "Earthseed: The Books of the Living," Parable of the Talents.