octavia e butler

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Fledgling Octavia E. Butler Warner, Apr 2007, $13.99 ISBN: 0446696161 She awakens feeling inside middle age, but looking preadolescent. Even more confusing is she suffers from amnesia and doesn’t know why she is in this cave badly bruised and injured. Finally she is starving, but instinctively...

Have you ever read an author who was so good that you just knew you would love his or her entire body of work after finishing the first book? I have. And as pathetic a thing as that is to say for someone who holds himself out as an objective book reviewer, I have to say that about Octavia...

Science Fiction lost a great talent friday 24th: Octavia Butler. She is known for being a female, Afro-American Science-Fiction writer and Hugo and Nebula winner. That, and for writing some most excellent Science Fiction. Seattle Times: According to Seattle Times, Butler died at hospital...

Hi! Are there other Octavia E. Butler fans out there? She is a rarity in S.F. as she lives in L.A., she is female, and she is Black. She is an alternate voice to many of the writers. Her characters come in many colors but the main ones also speak to the Black and female experience. That...