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- Author: Octavia E. Butler ISFDB Author Record # 186
- Legal Name: Butler, Octavia Estelle
- Birthplace: Pasadena, California, USA
- Birthdate: 22 June 1947
- Deathdate: 24 February 2006
- Language: English
- Webpages: IMDB, SFE3, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Octavia Estelle Butler , Octavia Butler
- Biography: Bio:Octavia E. Butler
- Bibliographic Comments: Author:Octavia E. Butler
- Author Tags: science fiction (12), 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), time travel (1), coming of age (1) and 6 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:
- Variant Title: Die Parabel vom Sämann [German] (1999)
- Variant Title: La Parabola del Seminatore [Italian] (2000)
- 2 Parable of the Talents (1998)
- 1
Parable of the Sower (1993)
also appeared as:
- Patternist
- 1
Patternmaster (1976)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Le maître du réseau [French] (1977) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: De Patroonmeester [Dutch] (1980)
- Variant Title: Als der Seelenmeister starb [German] (1982)
- 2
Mind of My Mind (1977)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Le motif [French] (1980)
- Variant Title: Der Seelenplan [German] (1983)
- Variant Title: Mind of My Mind (1991) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: La nuova stirpe [Italian] (1993)
- 3
Survivor (1978)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: La survivante [French] (1980)
- Variant Title: Alanna [German] (1984)
- Variant Title: Sopravvissuta [Italian] (1994)
- 4
Wild Seed (1980)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Wilde Saat [German] (1984)
- Variant Title: Seme selvaggio [Italian] (1991)
- 5
Clay's Ark (1984)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Clay's Ark (1984) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: Humains, plus qu'humains [French] (1985) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Serializations:
- 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 Title: Dawn (1988) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: Dämmerung [German] (1991)
- Variant Title: Madrugada [Portuguese] (2000)
- Serializations:
- Ultima genesi (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1987) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- 2
Adulthood Rites (1988)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Adulthood Rites (1989) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: Rituale [German] (1991)
- Variant Title: Ritos da Maioridade [Portuguese] (2001)
- Serializations:
- Ritorno alla terra (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1988) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- 3
Imago (1989)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Imago (1990) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: Imago [German] (1991)
-
Xenogenesis (1989) [O/1-3]
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Die Genhändler [German] (1999) [O/1-3]
- Variant Title: Lilith's Brood (2000) [O/1,2,3]
- 1
Dawn (1987)
also appeared as:
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Kindred (1979)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Vom gleichen Blut [German] (1983)
- Serializations:
- Legami di sangue (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1994) [as by Octavia Butler ]
-
Fledgling (2005)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Novice [French] (2008)
-
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Bloodchild and Other Stories, Second Edition (2005)
- Unexpected Stories (2014)
- Crossover (1971) [also as by Octavia Estelle Butler ]
-
Near of Kin (1979)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Nahe Verwandte [German] (1981)
- Speech Sounds (1983) [also as by Octavia Butler ]
-
Bloodchild (1984)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Bloodchild (1984) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- Variant Title: Blutsbande [German] (1986)
- Variant Title: Figlio di sangue [Italian] (1987)
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Variant Title: 血をわけた子供
[Japanese] (1992)
-
The Evening and the Morning and the Night (1987)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: Le soir et le matin et la nuit [French] (1989)
- Variant Title: Der Abend, der Morgen und die Nacht [German] (2000)
- Variant Title: The Evening, the Morning, and the Night (2015) [as by Octavia Butler ]
- from Imago (excerpt) (1989)
- Epilogue from Parable of the Talents (1998)
- Parable of the Talents (epilogue) (1998)
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Amnesty (2003)
also appeared as:
- Variant Title: 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)
- Preface (Bloodchild and Other Stories) (1995)
- The Monophobic Response (1995)
- About the Author (Patternmaster) (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)
- Preface (Bloodchild and Other Stories) (1996)
- Reading Group Guide (Parable of the Sower) (2007)
- Preface (Bloodchild and Other Stories) (unknown)
- 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
- "We Keep Playing the Same Record": A Conversation With Octavia Butler (1996) by Stephen W. Potts
- An Interview with Octavia E. Butler (1997) by Steven Piziks
- 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
- 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