- Author: Octavia E. Butler Author Record # 186
- Legal Name: Butler, Octavia Estelle
- Birthplace: Pasadena, California, USA
- Birthdate: 22 June 1947
- Deathdate: 24 February 2006
- Language: English
- Webpages: huntington.org, IMDB, SFE3, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: オクテイヴィア・E・バトラー?, Octavia Estelle Butler, Octavia Butler
- Author Tags: science fiction (13), fantasy (3), female leaders (2), female main character (2), genetic engineering (2), human experiment (1), immortal (1), mutant (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), secret breeding program (1), shapechangers (1), spiritual (1), strong female characters (1), telekinesis (1), telepathy (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), disowned by its author (1), community (1), spirituality (1) and 22 additional tags. View all tags for Octavia E. Butler
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Fiction Series
- Parable of the Sower
- 1
Parable of the Sower (1993)
also appeared as:
- Translation: La parabole du semeur [French] (1995)
- Translation: Die Parabel vom Sämann [German] (1999)
- Translation: La Parabola del Seminatore [Italian] (2000)
- Variant: The Parable of the Sower (2016)
- 2
Parable of the Talents (1998)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Parable of the Talents (2016)
- The Parable of the Sower / The Parable of the Talents (2016) [O/1,2]
- 1
Parable of the Sower (1993)
also appeared as:
- Patternist
- 1
Patternmaster (1976)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Le maître du réseau [French] (1977) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: De Patroonmeester [Dutch] (1980)
- Translation: Als der Seelenmeister starb [German] (1982)
- 2
Mind of My Mind (1977)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Le motif [French] (1980)
- Translation: Der Seelenplan [German] (1983)
- Variant: Mind of My Mind (1991) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: La nuova stirpe [Italian] (1993)
- 3
Survivor (1978)
also appeared as:
- Translation: La survivante [French] (1980)
- Translation: Alanna [German] (1984)
- Translation: Sopravvissuta [Italian] (1994)
- 4
Wild Seed (1980)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Wilde Saat [German] (1984)
- Translation: Seme selvaggio [Italian] (1991)
- 5
Clay's Ark (1984)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Clay's Ark (1984) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: Humains, plus qu'humains [French] (1985) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Serializations:
- Translation: Incidente nel deserto (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1985)
- Seed to Harvest (2007) [O/1,2,4,5]
- 1
Patternmaster (1976)
also appeared as:
- Xenogenesis
- 1
Dawn (1987)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Dawn (1988) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: Amanecer [Spanish] (1989)
- Translation: Dämmerung [German] (1991)
- Translation: Madrugada [Portuguese] (2000)
- Serializations:
- Translation: Ultima genesi (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1987) [as by Octavia Butler]
- 2
Adulthood Rites (1988)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Adulthood Rites (1989) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: Rituale [German] (1991)
- Translation: Ritos da Maioridade [Portuguese] (2001)
- Serializations:
- Translation: Ritorno alla terra (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1988) [as by Octavia Butler]
- 3
Imago (1989)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Imago (1990) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: Imago [German] (1991)
-
Xenogenesis (1989) [O/1-3]
also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Genhändler [German] (1999) [O/1-3]
- Variant: Lilith's Brood (2000) [O/1,2,3]
- 1
Dawn (1987)
also appeared as:
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Kindred (1979)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Vom gleichen Blut [German] (1983)
- Translation: Kindred - Verbunden [German] (2016)
- Serializations:
- Translation: Legami di sangue (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1994) [as by Octavia Butler]
-
Fledgling (2005)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Novice [French] (2008)
-
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Bloodchild and Other Stories, Second Edition (2005)
- Unexpected Stories (2014)
- Crossover (1971) [also as by Octavia Estelle Butler]
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Near of Kin (1979)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Nahe Verwandte [German] (1981)
-
Speech Sounds (1983)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Speech Sounds (1983) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: Der süße Klang des Wortes [German] (1987)
-
Bloodchild (1984)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Bloodchild (1984) [as by Octavia Butler]
- Translation: 血をわけた子供? [Japanese] (1986) [as by オクテイヴィア・E・バトラー?]
- Translation: Blutsbande [German] (1986)
- Translation: Dijete krvi [Croatian] (1986)
- Translation: Figlio di sangue [Italian] (1987)
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The Evening and the Morning and the Night (1987)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Le soir et le matin et la nuit [French] (1989)
- Translation: Der Abend, der Morgen und die Nacht [German] (2000)
- Variant: The Evening, the Morning, and the Night (2015) [as by Octavia Butler]
- from Imago (1989)
- Parable of the Talents (epilogue) (1998)
-
Amnesty (2003)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Amnesty [Italian] (2007)
- The Book of Martha (2003)
- A Necessary Being (2014)
- Childfinder (2014)
- Lost Races of Science Fiction (1980) [only as by Octavia Butler]
- untitled (The Faces of Science Fiction) (1984)
- Positive Obsession (1989)
- Furor Scribendi (1993)
- The Monophobic Response (1995)
- About the Author (Patternmaster) (1995)
- Preface (Bloodchild and Other Stories) (1995)
- Afterword (Bloodchild) (1996) [also as by Octavia Butler]
- Afterword (Crossover) (1996)
- Afterword (Furor Scribendi) (1996)
- Afterword (Near of Kin) (1996)
- Afterword (Positive Obsession) (1996)
- Afterword (Speech Sounds) (1996)
- Afterword (The Evening and the Morning and the Night) (1996)
- About the Author (Lilith's Brood) (2000)
- Reading Group Guide (Parable of the Sower) (2007)
- Interview with Octavia Butler (1979) by Jeffrey M. Elliot
- Sci-fi Visions: An Interview with Octavia Butler (1980) by Rosalie G. Harrison
- Entretien avec Octavia E. Butler [French] (1988) by Pascal J. Thomas
- Interview: Octavia Butler (1988) by A. E. Ubelhor and Julee Johnson-Tate
- Octavia E. Butler: SF in the Age of Anxiety (1988) by uncredited
- An Interview with Octavia E. Butler (1990) by Larry McCaffery and Jim McMenamin
- An Interview with Octavia E. Butler (1991) by Randall Kenan
- PW Inteviews Octavia E. Butler (1993) by Lisa See
- An Interview with Octavia E. Butler (1994) by Nancy V. Hayes
- Sci-Fi Tales from Octavia E. Butler (1994) by H. Jerome Jackson
- Octavia E. Butler Mouths Off! (1996) by Tasha Kelly and Jan Berrien Berends
- SFC Interview: A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler (1996) by Allison Stein Best
- "We Keep Playing the Same Record": A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler (1996) by Stephen W. Potts
- An Interview with Octavia E. Butler (1997) by Charles Rowell
- Congratulations! You've Just Won $295,000: An Interview with Octavia Butler (1997) by Joan Fry
- An Interview with Octavia E. Butler (1997) by Steven Piziks
- Octavia Butler (1998) by Mike McGonigal
- Octavia Butler and Samuel R. Delany / MIT Cultural Studies Project (1998) by uncredited (co-interviewed with Samuel R. Delany )
- Nebula Award Nominee Octavia Butler Is Expanding the Universe of Science-Fiction Readers (2000) by Janet Burkitt
- Octavia Butler (2000) by Juan Williams
- Octavia E. Butler: Persistence (2000) by uncredited
- "Radio Imagination": Octavia Butler on the Poetics of Narrative Embodiment (2001) by Marilyn Mehaffy and AnaLouise Keating
- Schreiben ist ein Akt der Hoffnung [German] (2001) by Usch Kiausch
- Essay on Racism (2001) by Scott Simon
- Big Thinker (2001) by Susan Stamberg
- Watching the Story Happen (2003) by Darrell Schweitzer
- A Conversation with Octavia Butler (2004) by Nicholas A. DiChario
- Octavia Butler's Kindred Turns Twenty-Five (2004) by Allison Keyes
- Interview: Octavia E. Butler (2004) by John C. Snider
- A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler (2004) by Nisi Shawl
- Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion (2005) by Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman
- The Lit Interview: Octavia Butler (2006) by Daniel Burton-Rose
- Interviewing the Oracle: Octavia Butler (2006) by Kazembe Balagun
- Interview with Octavia Butler (2009) by Jelani Cobb