Octavia Butler

Bibliography

Xenogenesis Trilogy

Dawn (1987)
Adulthood Rites(1988)
Imago (1989)

Patternist Series

Wild Seed (1980)
Mind of My Mind (1977)
Patternmaster (1976)
Clay's Ark (1984)
Survivor (1978)

Other Works

Kindred (1976)
Parable of the Sower (1994)
"Speech Sounds" -- appeared in Asminov's Dec. 1983 and Blood Child and Other Stories (1995)
"Blood Child" -- appeared in Asminov's Jun 1984 and Blood Child and Other Stories (1995)
Blood Child and Other Stories (1995)
---Blood Child (1984)
---Evening and the Morning and the Night (1987)
---Near of Kin (1971)
---Speech Sounds (1983)
---Crossover (1971)
---Positive Obsession (1989)
---Furor Scibendi (1993)

Criticisms

Allison, Dorthy. "The Future of Females: Octavia Butler's Mother Lode." In Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology edited by Henry Luis Gates, 471-78. NY: Meridian, 1990.
Foster, Frances S. "Octavia Butler's Black Female Future Vision," Extrapolation (1982): pages 37-49
Salvaggio, Ruth. "Octavia Butler and the Black Science Fiction Heroine." Black American Literature Forum. Vol 18, number 2 (1984): pages 78-81.

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