@booklet {8154, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Childfinder{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Unexpected Stories}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020), 27-92, with an \“Afterword\” by Butler on 93, with a \“Foreword: Necessary Stories\” by Nisi Shawl (7-10) and an \“Afterword by Merrilee Heifetz (95-97) (PSt copy is No. 894 of 1000 copies); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 577-587, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758-759), and Notes (771).

}, month = {2014}, pages = {EBook}, publisher = {Open Road}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story has a brief introductory statement that \“Psi could have put the human race on the road to utopia,\” but the dystopian story is about racial prejudice among the psi.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-59808-983-1 }, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {4866, title = {Parable of the Talents}, year = {1998}, note = {

An excerpt was published as \“Parable of the Talents Chapter Four.\” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (1999): 135-48 followed by Susan Palwick, \“Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia Butler\” (149-58).\ 

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Seven Stories Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1993 Butler in which the community started in the previous volume is taken over by religious fundamentalists.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {4411, title = {Parable of the Sower}, year = {1993}, note = {

See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q \& A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).

}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Four Walls Eight Windows}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls \“hyperempathy\” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called \“Earthseed\” can take root. Bothered by writer\’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, \“\‘There\&$\#$39;s Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns\’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler\&$\#$39;s Lost Parables.\” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {9506, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Evening and the Morning and the Night{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omni Magazine}, volume = {9.8}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback $\#$ 38. Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 33-84 with an \“Afterword\” on 85; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 171-95 with the \“Afterword\” on 195-96; in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 200-18; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 642-667, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772-773).

}, month = {May 1987}, pages = {56, 62, 108, 110, 113, 116, 118, 120}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The story concerns a disease that causes people to violently kill themselves and the discovery of a way to mitigate the effects through made possible by a genetic abnormality in some women. The dystopia is the way that society treats those with the disease, which is to isolate and exclude them, which can be read as a metaphor for the way society treats various classes of \“others\”.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {3465, title = {"Speech Sounds"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {7.13 (73) }, year = {1983}, note = {

Rpt. in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Fiction 1960-1990. Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 513-24; in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, \& Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 337-47 with an editors\’ note on 336; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 87-110 with an \“Afterword\” on 109-10; in A Woman\’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 185-200; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 185-97; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 245-55; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 566-79 with an editors\’ note on 566-67; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 604-619, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772).

}, month = {Mid-December 1983}, pages = {26-40}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the loss of the ability to communicate and the resulting violence. Those who can speak and write must keep it secret. African American female author.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} } @booklet {8805, title = {Kindred}, year = {1979}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1988 with an \“Introduction\” by Robert Crossley (ix-xxvii); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan \& Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 1-271, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (756-757), and Notes (761-769).

Adapted as a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. New York: AbramsComicArt, 2017, with an \“Introduction\” by Nnedi Okorafor (iv-vi).

}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co.}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

The dystopia of U.S. slavery written in the form of a slave narrative by a woman who lives simultaneously in the past and the present.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781598536751}, author = {Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006)} }