Her last book was 2005’s Fledgling, a science-fiction/vampire novel.
Genre of octavia e. butler books series#
The Earthseed Series of the early 1990s focuses on the desire for the stars. The Xenogenesis/Lillith's Brood Trilogy concerns sex, race, genetic engineering, and sociobiology. Butler had actually written an early draft for this series when she was a very young woman. Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s she worked on the “Patternist” series, in which a young woman works to defeat her tyrannical telepath father in a narrative spanning past and present. At the urging of famous science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, whom she met through an Open Door Workshop at the Screenwriters’ Guild of America, she attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop in Clarion, Pennsylvania in 1970.īutler’s most famous novel, Kindred, was published in 1979. She attended Pasadena City College in 1968 and won a short story contest, but it was at UCLA’s night school where she studied creative writing and began publishing numerous short stories in science fiction magazines. Although Pasadena was an integrated and diverse city, she witnessed racial discrimination firsthand when she accompanied her mother to work cleaning white people's houses and had to enter through the back door, often being spoken to rudely. She was shy, very tall for her age, and dyslexic she spent much time on her own.
She was raised by her mother and grandmother in a strict Baptist environment and demonstrated a love for reading and writing at an early age. Her heroines tend to be independent and intelligent African American women.īutler was born in Pasadena, California on June 22, 1947. Octavia Butler was one of the most prolific 20th-century writers, known for her works that crossed genre boundaries of science fiction, African American literature, and feminist and historical works.
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