Octavia E Butler

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(Octavia Estelle Butler)

(1947 - 2006)

About Octavia E Butler

Octavia Butler was born in 1947. Her novels include the acclaimed Patternist series.

The Associated Press reports that Octavia E. Butler has died.

Series

Patternists
1. Patternmaster (1976)
2. Mind of My Mind (1977)
3. Survivor (1978)
4. Wild Seed (1980)
5. Clay's Ark (1984)
Seed to Harvest (omnibus) (2007)

Xenogenesis
1. Dawn (1987)
2. Adulthood Rites (1988)
3. Imago (1989)
Lilith's Brood (omnibus) (2000)

Parable
1. Parable of the Sower (1993)
2. Parable of the Talents (1998)

Novels

Collections

Chapbooks

Anthologies containing stories by Octavia E Butler

Short stories

	Speech Sounds (1983)		Hugo
	Blood Child (1984)		Nebula
	Bloodchild (1984)		Hugo
	The Evening and the Morning and the Night (1987)		Nebula (nominee)

Awards

	Hugo Best Short story winner (1984) : Speech Sounds
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1985) : Bloodchild
	Nebula Best Novellette winner (1985) : Blood Child
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1988) : The Evening and the Morning and the Night
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1995) : Parable of the Sower
	Nebula Best Novel winner (2000) : Parable of the Talents
	Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Novel nominee (2001) : Parable of the Talents

Octavia E Butler recommends

Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America (2002)
Steven Barnes
"...best book Steven Barnes has ever written... imaginative, well researched, well written, and devastating"

Hostile Takeover (2004)
Susan Shwartz
"Susan Shwartz reminds one that SF is a literature of ideas."

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