Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler (22. júní 1947 - 24. feb. 2006) var bandarískur rithöfundur. 

Í æsku var hún var óhemju feimin og óörugg, og lesblinda gerði skólavist erfiða. Því eyddi hún miklu af tíma sínum á bókasafni borgarinnar þar sem hún hélt mest upp á ævintýri en kynntist vísndaskáldsögum sem urðu að lokum aðal lestrarefnið. Hún skrifaði ýmislegt í minnisbók, og 10 ára byrjaði hún að skrifa fyrstu sögurnar. Þegar hún var 18 ára seldi hún fyrstu smásöguna.

Verk

Ritverk

Valin rit 
Heildarlisti yfir útgefið efni eftir Octaviu Butler var settur saman af Calvin Ritch 2008.

Seríur

Patternist serían

 Patternmaster (Doubleday, 1976)
 Mind of My Mind (Doubleday, 1977)
 Survivor (Doubleday, 1978)
 Wild Seed (Doubleday, 1980)
 Clay's Ark (St. Martin's Press, 1984)
 Seed to Harvest (Grand Central Publishing 2007; omnibus excluding Survivor)

Xenogenesis serían

 Dawn (Warner, 1987)
 Adulthood Rites (Warner, 1988)
 Imago (Warner, 1989)
 Xenogenesis (Guild America Books, 1989) (omnibus útgáfa af Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago)
 Lilith's Brood (Warner, 2000) (önnur omnibus útgáfa af Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago)

Parable serían (einnig nefnd Earthseed serían)
 Parable of the Sower (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1993)
 Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press, 1998)

Sjálfstæðar bækur 
 Kindred (Doubleday, 1979)
 Fledgling (Seven Stories Press, 2005)

Smásagnasöfn 
 Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1995; Seven Stories Press, 2005 inniheldur "Amnesty" og "The Book of Martha")
 Unexpected Stories (2014, inniheldur "A Necessary Being" og "Childfinder")

Ritgerðir og ræður 
 "Lost Races of Science Fiction." Transmission (Summer 1980): pp. 16–18.
 "Birth of a Writer." Essence 20 (May 1989): 74+. Reprinted as "Positive Obsession" in Bloodchild and Other Stories.
 "Free Libraries: Are They Becoming Extinct?" Omni 15.10 (August 1993): 4.
 "Journeys." Journeys 30 (Oct 1995). Part of an edition from PEN/Faulkner Foundation, a talk given by Butler at the PEN/Faulkner Awards for Fiction in Rockville, MD at Quill & Brush. Reprinted as "The Monophobic Response" (the title that Butler preferred), in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, ed. Sheree R Thomas (New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2000), pp. 415–416.
 "Devil Girl from Mars: Why I Write Science Fiction",Media in Transition. MIT February 19, 1998. Transcript October 4, 1998.
 "Brave New Worlds: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future", Essence 31.1 (May 2000): 164+.
 "A World without Racism" / NPR Essay Un Racism Conference. NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. September 1, 2001.
 "Eye Witness: "Butler's Aha! Moment". O: The Oprah Magazine 3.5 (May 2002): 79–80.

Ófullgerðar skáldsögur og önnur verk 
 "I Should Have Said..." (minningar, 1998)
 "Paraclete" (skáldsaga, 2001)
 "Spiritus" (skáldsaga, 2001)
 "Parable of the Trickster" (skáldsaga, 1990s-2000s)

Óútgefið eða ekki í prentun (skáldsögur og sögur)
 "To the Victor" (Saga, 1965, undir höfundarnafninu Karen Adams, winning submission for a competition at Pasadena City College)
 "Loss" (Saga, 1967, 5ta sæti í  Writer's Digest smásagnakeppni)
 Blindsight (Skáldsaga: 1978, hafið; 1981, firsta uppkast; 1984, annað uppkast)

Tilvísanir

Tengt efni 
 Becker, Jennifer. "Octavia Estelle Butler", Lauren Curtright (ed.), Voices From the Gaps, University of Minnesota, August 21, 2004.
 "Butler, Octavia 1947–2006", in Jelena O. Krstovic (ed.), Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950, 2nd edn. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 244–258.
 Gates, Henry Louis Jr (ed.), "Octavia Butler". The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 2nd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Co, 2004: 2515.
 Charlie Rose, "A Conversation with Octavia Butler", Charlie Rose. 2000. [Two videos on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2.]
 "Interview with Octavia Butler", Locus 44. June 2000, p. 6.
 Stephen Barnes, "Interview", American Visions 15.5. October–November 2000, pp. 24–28.
 Robyn McGee, "Octavia Butler: Soul Sister of Science Fiction", Fireweed 73. Fall 2001, pp. 60 and following.
 Marilyn Mehafly and AnaLouise Keating, Radio Imagination': Octavia Butler on the Politics of Narrative Embodiment", MELUS 26.1. 2001, pp. 45–76. . .
 Scott Simon, "Essay on Racism: A Science-Fiction Writer Shares Her View of Intolerance", Weekend Edition Saturday. September 1, 2001 [Audio].
 "Interview with Octavia Butler". The Independent, January 2006.
 "Interview with Octavia Butler". Addicted to Race, February 6, 2006.

Bandarískir rithöfundar