Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006)
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Science-fiction writer and novelist Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She earned as Associate of Arts degree from Pasadena City College in 1968 and later attended California State University and the University of California. Her first novel, Patternmaster, visa mer was the first in a series about a society run by a group of telepaths who are mentally linked to one another. She explored the topics of race, poverty, politics, religion, and human nature in her works. She won a Hugo Award in 1984 for her short story Speech Sounds and a Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 1985 for her novella Bloodchild. She received a MacArthur Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The award pays $295,000 over a five-year period to creative people who push the boundaries of their fields. She died in Lake Forest Park, Washington on February 24, 2006 at the age of 58. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Octavia E. Butler
Kindred 1 exemplar
Kindred: A Reader's Guide 1 exemplar
Parable of the Sower 1 exemplar
Elos Da Mente 1 exemplar
Butler, Octavia Archive 1 exemplar
The Missing Relationship 1 exemplar
Childfinder [short story] 1 exemplar
A Necessary Being [novelette] 1 exemplar
Bloodchild 1 exemplar
Stub for Adulthood Rites in Lilith's Brood 1 exemplar
L'initiation: Xenogenesis 2 1 exemplar
Book of the Living 1 exemplar
2000x: Bloodchild 1 exemplar
Tomorrow is the Child of Today 1 exemplar
Stub for "Imago" in Lilith's Brood 1 exemplar
Epilogue from Parable of the Talents 1 exemplar
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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 529 exemplar
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 315 exemplar
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 296 exemplar
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 274 exemplar
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 270 exemplar
Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 203 exemplar
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 177 exemplar
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 159 exemplar
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73 • June 2016 (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 60 exemplar
Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Short Stories for Young Adults (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
Nebula Awards 20: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 1984 (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 6 [June 1984] (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Butler, Octavia Estelle
- Födelsedag
- 1947-06-22
- Avled
- 2006-02-24
- Begravningsplats
- Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, California, USA
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Pasadena, California, USA
- Dödsort
- Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA
- Dödsorsak
- fall
- Bostadsorter
- Pasadena, California, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Utbildning
- Pasadena City College
California State University, Los Angeles - Yrken
- science fiction writer
- Organisationer
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Creative Arts Award L.A. YWCA (1980)
MacArthur Fellowship (1995)
Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing: PEN American Center (2000)
Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1997)
SF Hall Of Fame (2010)
SFWA Infinity Award (2023) - Agent
- Merilee Heifetz (Writers House)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
January 2021: Octavia Butler i Monthly Author Reads (november 2021)
Octavia Butler: American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2017 (augusti 2017)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 57
- Även av
- 50
- Medlemmar
- 43,866
- Popularitet
- #382
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
- 1,463
- ISBN
- 367
- Språk
- 14
- Favoritmärkt
- 273
The narrator, Lauren Olamina, is a 15 year old girl living in a walled California community, trying to fend off the outside groups from invading. Climate change, poverty and unemployment have created this Mad Max existence- speculative fiction; no aliens or vampires, just a projection of what was current issues. "I considered drugs and the effects of drugs on the children of drug addicts. I looked at the growing rich/ poor gap, at throwaway labor, at our willingness to build and fill prisons, our reluctance to build and repair schools and libraries, and at our assault on the environment. In particular, I looked at global warming and the ways in which it’s likely to change things for us."
In addition to the vivid portrait of the setting, the narrator is equally engaging. Lauren has hyper-empathy, meaning she feels the pain of others as her own. She is a sharer. She also is forming the tenets of her our religion- Earthseed, where God is Change. Butler writes"change is the one inescapable truth, change is the basic clay of our lives. In order to live constructive lives, we must learn to shape change when we can and yield to it when we must. Either way, we must learn and teach, adapt and grow."
The arc of the novel is a journey Lauren takes with others when her community is destroyed. Having lost her family, she bonds with others to hopefully find a place where they can exist. The novel reaches a satisfying ending but also sets up the sequel.
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The dogs used to belong to people—or their ancestors did. But dogs eat meat. These days, no poor or middle class person who had an edible piece of meat would give it to a dog.
And you know that drug that makes people want to set fires?” She nodded, chewing. “It’s spreading again. It was on the east coast. Now it’s in Chicago. The reports say that it makes watching a fire better than sex.
I like Curtis Talcott a lot. Maybe I love him. Sometimes I think I do. He says he loves me. But if all I had to look forward to was marriage to him and babies and poverty that just keeps getting worse, I think I’d kill myself.
“That’s the ultimate Earthseed aim, and the ultimate human change short of death. It’s a destiny we’d better pursue if we hope to be anything other than smooth-skinned dinosaurs—here today, gone tomorrow, our bones mixed with the bones and ashes of our cities.”… (mer)