“All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.”
- Octavia E. Butler
Overview:
Octavia E. Butler was a genuinely thoughtful and trailblazing African American author who used science fiction to explore stories of survival, transformation, power and Identity, often through complex African American characters faced with oppression and change.
Novels-
Kindred(1979)
Wild Seed(1980)
Dawn(1987)
Parable of the Sower(1993)
Fledgling(2005)
Short Stories-
Speech Sounds(1983)- Hugo Award winner
Bloodchild(1984)- Hugo and Nebula Award winner
The Evening and the Morning and the Night(1987)
Amnesty(2003)
Essays and Reflections-
Positive Obsession
Furor Scribendi
Graphic Adaptations-
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Anthology Contributions-
Dark Matter
Black Futures
Callaloo Journal
Interviews and Speeches
Butler has numerous interviews and speechs that are now in literary journals.
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