Octavia E Butler

(Octavia Estelle Butler)

(1947 - 2006)

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.

Awards: Nebula (1999), Hugo (1985) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror

Series

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

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

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

Novels

Kindred (1979)
Fledgling (2005)

Collections

Bloodchild (1995)
Unexpected Stories (2014)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Evening and the Morning And the Night (1991)

Series contributed to

Last Interview
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview (2023)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Octavia E Butler

The Last Dangerous Visions (2024)
(Dangerous Visions, book 3)
edited by
Harlan Ellison

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016)
edited by
Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanderMeer

More books

Awards

	1999 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Parable of the Talents
	1985 Nebula Award for Best Novelette : Blood Child
	1985 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : Bloodchild [short story]
	1984 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : Speech Sounds

Award nominations

	2015 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Childfinder
	2006 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Fledgling
	2001 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : Parable of the Talents
	1999 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Parable of the Talents
	1996 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Bloodchild: And Other Stories
	1995 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Parable of the Sower
	1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Parable of the Sower
	1990 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Imago
	1989 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Adulthood Rites
	1988 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : The Evening and the Morning And the Night
	1988 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Evening and the Morning and the Night [short story]
	1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Dawn
	1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Evening and the Morning And the Night
	1985 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Clay's Ark
	1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Wild Seed
	1980 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Kindred

Octavia E Butler recommends

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

Lion's Blood (2002)
(Lion's Blood, book 1)
Steven Barnes
"...best book Steven Barnes has ever written... imaginative, well researched, well written, and devastating"

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