![]() ![]() Bloodchild and Other Stories is a good place to begin discovering her work. ![]() Crushingly, she died at the height of her powers. "Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles," Butler stated, "and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together." Butler's writing is courageous, stimulating and infused with a rare purity of intention. Butler, The 1619 Project, and the Book That Sealed a Friendship. They gaze unflinchingly on power dynamics. The award-winning author of The Fifth Season and The World We Make on Octavia E. Her narratives leave space for the reader's involvement while exploring the nature of change. A serious writer working in a field that is seldom taken seriously, Butler addressed biological control, gender, humanity's relationship with aliens, genetics and even the development of a fictional religion. Critically respected, she won the Hugo and Nebula awards, received a Clarke nomination, the PEN lifetime achievement award and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Kindred tells the wrenching and unforgettable story of a young black woman who time-travels and saves the life of her slaveholder ancestor, but it is, in Butler's words, "a grim fantasy", not science fiction.īeginning in the 1970s, Butler wrote three sequences of novels: the Patternist books, the Lilith's Brood series and the Parable novels (incomplete at her tragic death in 2006). For many years, Butler was the sole African-American woman novelist in science fiction. ![]() I thought I was familiar with science fiction, but I'd never heard of her – nor have a great many other readers, I suspect. It caught my attention because Butler was described as a science-fiction writer. Butler Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Parable of the Sower Parable of the Talents Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse Wild. I was teaching in New York when I came across Octavia E Butler's Kindred in a secondary-school catalogue of novels recommended to support diversity. An American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.Ĭomment by Tricia Sullivan, on The Guardian: ![]()
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