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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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- “I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?”Octavia E. Butler
- “I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.”Octavia E. Butler
- “Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote th…”Octavia E. Butler
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- “Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enoug…”Lawrence M. Krauss
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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