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About Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction and speculative fiction author
Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author. She won the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards, and in 1995 became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Her work helped define modern speculative fiction, and she is especially known for writing that brought discipline and force to the genre. The record here shows 113 quotes from her.
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Books by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
1979
Fledgling
2005
Parable of the Sower
1993
Parable of the Talents
1998
Adulthood Rites
1988