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Octavia E Butler

(Octavia Estelle Butler)
USA  (1947 - 2006)
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About Octavia E Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
 
Non fiction
Conversations with Octavia Butler
 
Anthologies containing stories by Octavia E Butler
Nebula Awards 20Invaders!The Norton Book of Science FictionNew Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow
Visions of FearThe Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by WomenWomen of WonderVirtually Now: Stories of Science, Technology, and the Future
Future on Ice
 
Short stories
Speech Sounds (1983)Hugo
Blood Child (1984)Nebula
Bloodchild [short story] (1984)Hugo
The Evening and the Morning and the Night [short story] (1987)Nebula (nominee)


Awards
Hugo Best Short story winner (1984) : Speech Sounds
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1985) : Bloodchild [short story]
Nebula Best Novellette winner (1985) : Blood Child
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1988) : The Evening and the Morning and the Night [short story]
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


Links to other websites
octaviabutler.com


Octavia E Butler recommends
Lion's Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
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
Hostile Takeover (2004)
Susan Shwartz
"Susan Shwartz reminds one that SF is a literature of ideas."



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