Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler was born in 1947 and died in 2006., Octavia E. Butler has written at least 52 books. Their most popular book is Parable of the Sower with 1465 saves with an average rating of 4.14⭐.
Author Bio
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
After her father died, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer's workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction.
She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington state. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library.
1979 • 1,134 Readers • 287 pages • 4.4
2001 • 262 Readers • 320 pages • 3.6
#1 of 2 in Earthseed
1984 • 254 Readers • 144 pages • 4.2
2017 • 79 Readers • 240 pages • 3.9
#1 of 4 in Wastelands
2008 • 74 Readers • 352 pages • 3.6
Planned book #1 of 1 in Dark Matter
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2014 • 38 Readers • 104 pages • 3.8
25 Readers • 4
#1 of 2 in Earthseed
1999 • 11 Readers • 1,600 pages • 4
2009 • 10 Readers • 232 pages • 4
2010 • 9 Readers • 787 pages
9 Readers • 4.5
1985 • 5 Readers • 812 pages • 4
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4 Readers • 38 pages • 4.7
2004 • 4 Readers • 528 pages • 5
1995 • 3 Readers • 560 pages
1991 • 3 Readers • 45 pages
2016 • 3 Readers • 464 pages • 4
2015 • 2 Readers • 372 pages
1979 • 2 Readers • 341 pages
2019 • 1 Reader • 249 pages • 5
1990 • 1 Reader
1989 • 1 Reader • 320 pages • 4
2004 • 1 Reader • 484 pages
1993 • 1 Reader • 241 pages
2013 • 1 Reader • 218 pages
#1 of 4 in Wastelands
2008 • 1 Reader • 567 pages
#1 of 2 in Earthseed
2019 • 1 Reader
2023 • 1 Reader • 735 pages
1987 • 1 Reader • 744 pages • 2
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#1 of 1 in Patternist
1980 • 1 Reader • 384 pages
1989 • 1 Reader
1991 • 1 Reader • 736 pages
1979 • 1 Reader • 345 pages • 4
1988 • 522 pages