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Octavia Estelle Butler (b. June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an award-winning American science fiction author. Butler is the winner of Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novel Parable of the Talents and novelette Bloodchild. She is the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant and one of the first African-American women to break into the world of science fiction.

Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. She never got to know her father who died while she was still a baby, and was raised by her mother and grandmother. She began reading science fiction as a child, drawn to the openness of the genre.

Novels

• Kindred (1979)
• Fledgling (2005)

Patternists

• Patternmaster (1976)
• Mind of My Mind (1977)
• Survivor (1978)
• Wild Seed (1980)
• Clay's Ark (1984)

Xenogenesis

• Dawn (1987)
• Adulthood Rites (1988)
• Imago (1989)

Parable

• Parable of the Sower (1993)
• Parable of the Talents (1998)

Awards

• 2000: lifetime achievement award in writing from the PEN American Center
• 1999: Nebula Award for Best Novel - Parable of the Talents
• 1995: MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant
• 1985: Hugo Award for Best Novelette - Bloodchild
• 1985: Locus Award for Best Novelette - "Bloodchild"
• 1985: Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette - "Bloodchild"
• 1984: Nebula Award for Best Novelette - Bloodchild
• 1984: Hugo Award for Best Short Story - Speech Sounds
• 1980: Creative Arts Award, L.A. YWCA

External Links

• "Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler Dead at 58" – the New York city Independent Media