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#Octavia e butler series

When I was 12, I had this big brown three-ring binder notebook that somebody had thrown away, and I was watching this godawful movie on television. At 11, I was writing romances, and I'm happy to say I didn't know any more about romance than I did about horses. I began with horse stories, because I was crazy over horses, even though I never got near one. I had already been writing for two years. '' Devil Girl From Mars is the movie that got me writing science fiction, when I was 12 years old.

#Octavia e butler series

She is currently developing the ''Parable'' series dealing with mankind's reaching out to the stars, its origins chronicled in Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998), with more to come. In 1995, she received a $295,000 MacArthur Foundation ''Genius'' award вЂ“ the first SF writer to do so. She won the 1984 Hugo for short story ''Speech Sounds'', and 1985 Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for novelette ''Bloodchild''. Much of Butler's shorter fiction was collected in Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995). ''Xenogenesis'' books Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989) came next. Clay's Ark (1984) was another standalone. After standalones Survivor (1978) and Kindred (1979), she returned to the series with Wild Seed (1980). After working at a number of blue-collar jobs to support herself, she began her notable career with two in the ''Patternist'' SF series: Patternmaster (1976), and Mind of My Mind (1977). Her first story, ''Crossover'', appeared in the 1971 Clarion anthology, but she only had one other sale in the next five years. In 1969, she went to Cal State - L.A, and also took a class from Harlan Ellison as part of the Screen Writers' Guild Open Door Program. She attended Pasadena City College, where she received an A.A. Her father died when she was still a baby, and her mother raised her on her own, working as a maid. Octavia Estelle Butler was born Jin Pasadena, California. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, June 2000) She also received two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Society and two Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction Writers of America.Д«utler moved to Seattle, Washington in 1999, and in 2006 she died suddenly after a fall outside her home in Lake Forest Park, Washington.O C T A V I A E.

In 1995 Octavia Butler was given a MacArthur Fellowship, the first science fiction writer to receive the award. ButlerвЂ™s other books are the Xenogenesis trilogy, published by Warner Books, comprising Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989).

Kindred became the most popular of all her books, with 250,000 copies currently in print. In 1979 she published Kindred, a novel that uses time travel to explore slavery in the United States. It became the first installment in ButlerвЂ™s highly regarded Patternist series, whose later titles included Mind of My Mind (1977), Survivor (1978), Wild Seed (1980), and ClayвЂ™s Ark (1984). Within the next couple of years, her first novel, Patternmaster, was published by Doubleday in 1976. Over the next few years, she religiously got up each day at 2 a.m. Butler earned an associateвЂ™s degree from Pasadena City College in 1968, and later studied at California State University, Los Angeles. Butler began writing when she was 10 years old and told friends she embraced science fiction after seeing a B-movie called вЂњDevil Girl from MarsвЂќ and thought, вЂњI can write a better story than that.вЂќ Octavia Senior could not afford books, but she brought home the discards of the white families for whom she worked. Junie grew up shy, losing herself in books despite having dyslexia. ButlerвЂ™s mother worked as a maid to provide for the family after her father died, but nonetheless they continued to struggle in a poor but racially mixed neighborhood throughout her childhood.

As a girl, she was known as Junie, derived from вЂњJuniorвЂќ since her mother was also named Octavia. Her father passed away when she was a baby, so she was raised by her grandmother and her mother. Octavia was born in Pasadena California to Laurice and Octavia Butler.