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	Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 58 - New York Times
		Octavia E. Butler, an internationally acclaimed science fiction writer whose evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human, died on Friday after a fall near her home in Lake Forest Park, Wash. She was 58.
		Butler's career, the news media made much of the fact that she was an African-American woman writing science fiction, traditionally a white male bastion.
		Octavia Estelle Butler was born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, Calif. As a girl, she was known as Junie.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/01/books/01butler.html?ex=1298869200&en=ddbca5a306bdb1e4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (936 words)

	Octavia Butler, 1947-2006: Sci-fi writer a gifted pioneer in white, male domain
		Butler's most popular work is "Kindred," a time-travel novel in which a fl woman from 1976 Southern California is transported back to the violent days of slavery before the Civil War.
		Butler was a confirmed non-driver who would chat with other bus passengers or with neighbors who gave her rides when she trudged home with bags of groceries, as neighbor Terry Morgan did.
		Butler's death means that "Fledgling," published last fall to enthusiastic praise, will likely stand as her final novel, to the great disappointment to Butler's many fans and friends who expected more work.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html (1123 words)

	USATODAY.com - Science fiction writer Octavia Butler dies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Butler fell and struck her head on the cobbled walkway outside her home, said Leslie Howle, a longtime friend and employee at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.
		Butler began writing at age 10, and told Howle she embraced science fiction after seeing a schlocky B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars and thought, "I can write a better story than that." In 1970, she took a bus from her hometown of Pasadena, Calif., to attend a fantasy writers workshop in East Lansing, Mich.
		She received many awards, and in 1995 Butler was the first science fiction writer granted a "genius" award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which paid $295,000 over five years.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-02-27-butler-obit_x.htm (501 words)

	Octavia E. Butler Biography Summary
		Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the very few African-American women in the field.
		Octavia Butler (born 1947) is best known as the author of the Patternist series of science fiction novels in which she explores topics traditionally given only cursory treatment in the genre, including sexual identity and racial conflict.
		Octavia Butler, 58, one of the country's leading science fiction writers who as an African American woman brought themes of race, gender and power to the genre, died of an apparent stroke Feb. 24 at her home in Seattle.
	www.bookrags.com /Octavia_E._Butler (457 words)

	Memorial for Octavia E. Butler
		Butler taught several sessions for Clarion West in Seattle, Washington, and Clarion in East Lansing, Michigan, giving generously of her time to a cause she believed in.
		Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was the first fl woman to come to international prominence as a science fiction writer.
		Butler was a towering figure in life and in her art and the world noticed.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /news/arc/2006/nz9997.php (380 words)

	Global Talent Associates - Octavia E. Butler
		Multiple award winner Octavia E. Butler’s extraordinary novels have made her a powerful voice in women’s studies, African American literature, and modern science fiction.
		Butler is the author of eleven novels, including Kindred, Dawn, and Parable of the Sower.
		Fledgling, Butler’s first novel in seven years, is the story of Shori, an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year old vampire.
	www.globaltalentassoc.com /site/clients/butler.htm (162 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Butler, Octavia Estelle
		Octavia Estelle Butler is "the first African-American woman to gain popularity and critical acclaim as a major science fiction writer" (Hine 208).
		Of five pregnancies, Butler was the only child that her mother was able to carry to term.
		Butler's Patternists series, published between 1976 and 1984, tells of a society that is run by a specially-bred group of telepaths.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/butler_octavia_estelle.html (1452 words)

	The Blog of Death: Octavia E. Butler
		Octavia Estelle Butler, a science fiction writer who won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, died on Feb. 24 after falling and hitting her head on the cobbled walkway outside her Lake Forest Park, Wash., home.
		Butler ended seven years of a medically and emotionally induced writer's block with the publication of the the vampire novel, "Fledgling," in 2005.
		In 1984, Butler won the Hugo, the Science Fiction Achievement Award named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, for her short story "Speech Sounds." She received another Hugo in 1985 in the best novelette category, for "Bloodchild." The story won a Nebula Award, science fiction's highest prize, that same year.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001548.html (438 words)

	Powell's Books - Fledgling: A Novel by Octavia E. Butler
		Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
		Octavia E. Butler is the author of many novels, including Dawn, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower.
		Octavia Butler once again with this book proves why she is considered one of the best fiction writers alive today.
	www.powells.com /biblio/17-1583226907-0 (881 words)

	Octavia E. Butler
		She earned an Associates degree at Pasadena City College (A.A., 1968), and attended California State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles, the Open Door Program of the Screen Writers' Guild of America and the Clarion SF Writers' Workshop.
		In 1995 Butler was awarded a $295,000 so-called "genius grant," a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her unique synthesis of science fiction, mysticism, mythology, and African-American spiritualism.
		Butler's short story Bloodchild (1984) (in the collection Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)) about human male slaves who incubate their alien masters' eggs, won several awards, including the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award.
	members.tripod.com /literarybee/Books/Butler.html (192 words)

	Black Pot Mojo: Last Night's Octavia E Butler Tribute @ NYPL!
		Butler discuss her writing so passionately, what she was working on and how she felt about it, was really wonderful, even the outlines of works that she ultimately urged, with characteristic humor, Merrilee to throw away.
		Merrilee said that Octavia was a big believer in luck, and as Merrilee read, I kept thinking just how lucky we are that Octavia was such an astute reader of her own work and that she was wise and fortunate enough to have remained in such capable and knowing hands.
		Butler, whom he hadn't seen in fifteen years, only to learn that the boxed collection that once served as his playground was now an impressive research center with its own real estate on 135th Street and Lenox.
	blackpotmojo.blogspot.com /2006/06/last-nights-octavia-e-butler-tribute.html (1642 words)

	Authors: Octavia E. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ctavia E. Butler was the first fl woman to come to international prominence as a science fiction writer.
		Butler was a towering figure in life and in her art and the world noticed; highly acclaimed by reviewers, she received numerous awards, including a MacArthur "genius" grant, both the Hugo and Nebula awards, the Langston Hughes Medal, as well as a PEN Lifetime Achievement award.
		Octavia E. Butler once wrote: I'm a 53-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer.
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/85/184/index.html (286 words)

	Octavia E. Butler - Obituaries, News - The Independent
		Octavia Estelle Butler ("Junie" as a child, Estelle to friends in adult life) was born of poor parents in Pasadena, California, in 1947.
		Her father died when she was young, and her mother worked as a cleaning lady; the unblinking authenticity of her depictions of urban life in California under apocalyptic stress, as rich and poor alike become refugees in a land that was supposed to be theirs, derive directly from her own experiences.
		Butler's background, and her moderate dyslexia, was not conducive to easy facility or quick success.
	www.independent.co.uk /news/obituaries/octavia-e-butler-468255.html (982 words)

	Octavia Butler, 58; Author Opened the Galaxies of Science Fiction to Blacks - Los Angeles Times
		Butler, whose 12 stunning, thought-provoking novels of science fiction inspired new readers and writers to explore the genre, died Saturday.
		Butler was born June 22, 1947, in Pasadena and known to family and friends as Junie.
		For Butler, the grant was also an opportunity to buy a home for herself and her mother, with whom she shared a close relationship.
	articles.latimes.com /2006/feb/28/local/me-butler28 (1194 words)

	Octavia E. Butler
		The contributors, including Hortense Spillers, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and Steven Barnes, formulate a woman-centered Afro-Futurism by repositioning previously excluded fiction to redefine science fiction as a broader fantastic endeavor.
		Fledgling, Octavia Butler's first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
		Butler, Wanda Coleman, Stanley Crouch, Eric Jerome Dickey, Sikivu Hutchinson, Silas Jones, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Gary Phillips, Randy Ross, Jervey Tervalon, and Ellery Washington.
	authors.aalbc.com /octavia.htm (1201 words)

	Octavia E. Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California.
		Octavia Jr., known as "Junie", was thus considered shy and a "daydreamer" and was later diagnosed as being dyslexic.
		Butler had originally planned to write a third Parable novel, tentatively titled Parable of the Trickster, mentioning her work on it in a number of interviews, but at some point encountered a form of writer's block, going seven years without publishing a new novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Octavia_Butler (1695 words)

	African American Registry -- Your Source for African American History
		Butler was very shy in school, a daydreamer, and that made school very difficult--as did her dyslexia, which she overcame.
		Butler's “Patternists Series,” published between 1976 and 1984, tell of a society that is run by a specially bred group of telepaths.
		Butler has been quoted saying: "Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow....
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1732/Octavia_Butler_a_unique_writer (453 words)

	Octavia E. Butler
		Octavia E. Butler has been an inspiration to a new generation of writers for the last quarter century.
		OEB: Well, the character [Lauren Olamina] who comes up with the religion is living during a near-future time that's gotten very nasty; the US has collapsed economically and ecologically, and things are going very badly.
		OEB: There are a couple of short stories, one called "The Book of Martha" and one called "Amnesty".
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jun04/octaviaebutler.htm (2405 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Octavia E. Butler
		Judging from the type of questions Butler got that night, many of her readers are less science-fiction fans and more feminists, with a strong African American contingent (not surprising, considering the fact many of Butler's heroines are strong, African American women).
		Still, after reading Bloodchild, a fine little collection of Butler's short stories and short essays, one is led to the conclusion that the author is called a science-fiction writer only because the booksellers need a location on the shelf to put her in.
		If Butler comes out of any tradition it might be that of Johnathan Swift in her use of fantasy to highlight the absurdity-slipping-into-horror of human society.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.04.96/books-9601.html (836 words)

	Octavia E. Butler Plants an Earthseed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in 1947, Octavia E. Butler established herself in the SF field beginning in the 1970s with the publication of her Patternist series.
		As one of the first African-American science fiction writers, and indeed one of a few women breaking the formidable SF gender barrier, she brought a fresh new voice to the genre.
		Butler spoke with Amazon.com's Therese Littleton and Bonnie Bouman about the Earthseed series, how she got started writing, and what it's like to be the "grande dame of science fiction."
	www.cyberhaven.com /books/sciencefiction/butler.html (1682 words)

	Amazon.com: Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis): Books: Octavia E. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Butler creates yet another of her dystopian earths, but its final crisis is ameliorated by the intervention of an alien species, the oankali.
		Reading a Butler, one gets the impression that one is watching a grandmaster writing in her prime--and yet, the nice thing about reading her is the sense that the best is yet to come.
		She gradually takes the reader from the perspective of a `human,' specifically an Earthling who encounters an alien race to the perspective of the `alien,' specifically the descendent of interbreeding between humans and aliens who is now the `human' and sees Earthlings as the aliens.
	amazon.com /Adulthood-Rites-Xenogenesis-Octavia-Butler/dp/0446603783 (1537 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Fledgling, by Octavia E. Butler, Paperback, Bargain
		Octavia E. Butler is the author of eleven novels, including Kindred, Dawn, and Parable of the Sower.
		Octavia Butler's first vampire novel in seven years was also, unfortunately, her final book: The first science fiction writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation Grant died early in 2006.
		Butler (Bloodchild and Other Stories, 1995, etc.) effortlessly navigates what are pretty queasy waters, what with Shori's frank and carnal relationship with her symbionts, complicated by her looking like a ten-year-old girl when in fact she's 53.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /Fledgling/Octavia-E-Butler/e/9780641903335/?itm=3 (4480 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Octavia Butler, prominent science fiction author, dies at 58
		SEATTLE – Octavia E. Butler, the first fl woman to gain national prominence as a science fiction writer, died after falling and striking her head on the cobbled walkway outside her home, a close friend said Sunday.
		Butler was found outside her home in the north Seattle suburb of Lake Forest Park on Friday.
		Butler began writing at age 10, and told Howle she embraced science fiction after seeing a schlocky B-movie called "Devil Girl from Mars" and thinking, "I can write a better story than that." In 1970, she took a bus from her hometown of Pasadena, Calif., to East Lansing, Mich., to attend a fantasy writers workshop.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002831136_webbutlerobit26.html (686 words)

	Octavia E. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was introduced to the works of Octavia E. Butler when a friend of mine, a writer and columnist named Robert Vamosi, insisted I must read her.
		In 2000, visiting Octavia’s home with Steve to interview her for a piece we wrote for American Visions magazine, I was surprised to see that photo from Clark hanging on her wall.
		Octavia could not have been feeling well when she sent out her own cards this year, but hers were always among the first to arrive.
	www.tananarivedue.com /Octavia%20Butler.htm (803 words)

	The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship
		The first Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarships were granted in 2007 to attendees of the Clarion and Clarion West workshops.
		It is meant to cement Octavia's legacy by providing the same experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers of color.
		Octavia E. Butler (1947 - 2006) was a brilliant African American writer who broke barriers with her courageous and profoundly truthful books and stories.
	www.carlbrandon.org /butlerscholarship/index.html (370 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Octavia Butler, brilliant master of sci-fi, dies at 58
		Butler was such a private person that even her closest friends said they knew little about her.
		Butler had a number of obstacles to overcome in the writing business, among them being female and being fl.
		Butler told a Seattle Times reporter that she had been a tall, socially awkward child in Pasadena, Calif., spending much of her time in the public library and sending manuscripts to publishers when she was only 12 or 13.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002831388_butlerobit27m.html (672 words)

	Amazon.ca: Parable of the Sower: Octavia E Butler: Books
		Octavia E. Butler, the grande dame of science fiction, writes extraordinary, inspirational stories of ordinary people.
		Butler tells her story with unusual warmth, sensitivity, honesty and grace; though science fiction readers will recognize this future Earth, Lauren Olamina and her vision make this novel stand out like a tree amid saplings.
		Butler's vision of a destitute U.S., home to cannibals, psychotic pyromaniacs, and dogs that are no longer domesticated but vicious and hungry for human flesh, seems all too real and possible.
	www.amazon.ca /Parable-Sower-Octavia-E-Butler/dp/0446601977 (1246 words)

	Amazon.de: Wild Seed: English Books: Octavia E. Butler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is the first Octavia Butler book I read, recommended by a friend who is a fan of hers.
		Butler's writing is a gift, a magnificent talent that cuts to the heart of the matter.
		Butler is one of the best science fiction writers currently creating fiction.
	www.amazon.de /Wild-Seed-Octavia-E-Butler/dp/0446606723 (864 words)

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