flag All Votes Add Books To This List 16 books 49 voters list created May 29th, 2011 by deleted user. ![]() Butlers books has finally made it into the New York Times Best Seller List something the widely-acclaimed science fiction author had envisioned for herself several years ago. Butler Please only vote for and add books written by the author Octavia E. We took all of the books written by Octavia Butler and looked at their Goodreads, Amazon, and LibraryThing scores, ranking them against one another to see which books came out on top. ![]() These five books are a great starting point to connect with Butler’s most celebrated characters and their futurist fates. It may have taken more than 44 years since the publication of her first-ever novel, but one of Octavia E. Whether just getting acquainted with Butler’s work or familiar with her complete canon, her dystopian stories have withstood the test of time and are in many ways more relevant today. The late American author Octavia Butler died nearly 15 years ago, but the disturbing plague year that is coming to a close has resulted in a renewed interest in her books. In this 1999 Nebula Award winner for Best Novel. Bloodchild and Other Stories might just be the best Octavia Butler book, but it is also one of the few that we would openly recommend as an introductory to. She often said her central audiences included black readers, feminists, and fans of science fiction, and each of these communities could connect with characters. Octavia Butler was the first science-fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. Her dystopias reflected the social issues plaguing modernity while also absorbing readers into a new world of possibility.īy challenging science fiction’s reliance on white protagonists, Butler successfully made the genre accessible to a greater audience. “I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” Butler was able to create new worlds where the prejudices she faced could be reexamined, countered, and subverted. ![]() Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science- fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. BUTLER (19472006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. “I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open,” Butler once said in an interview with The Indypendent. Handwritten notes on the inside cover of one of Octavia E.
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