Octavia E. Butler

**Octavia Estelle Butler** (22. júní 1947 - 24. feb. 2006) var bandarískur rithöfundur. 

Í æsku var hún var óhemju feimin og óörugg, og lesblinda gerði skólavist erfiða. Því eyddi hún miklu af tíma sínum á bókasafni borgarinnar þar sem hún hélt mest upp á ævintýri en kynntist vísndaskáldsögum sem urðu að lokum aðal lestrarefnið. Hún skrifaði ýmislegt í minnisbók, og 10 ára byrjaði hún að skrifa fyrstu sögurnar. Þegar hún var 18 ára seldi hún fyrstu smásöguna.

## Verk

### Ritverk
## Valin rit
Heildarlisti yfir útgefið efni eftir Octaviu Butler var settur saman af Calvin Ritch 2008.

### Seríur
#### ''Patternist serían''

* *[[Patternmaster]]* (Doubleday, 1976)
* *[[Mind of My Mind]]* (Doubleday, 1977)
* *[[Survivor (Octavia Butler)|Survivor]]* (Doubleday, 1978)
* *[[Wild Seed (Octavia Butler)|Wild Seed]]* (Doubleday, 1980)
* *[[Clay's Ark]]* (St. Martin's Press, 1984)
* *[[Seed to Harvest]]* (Grand Central Publishing 2007; omnibus excluding *Survivor*)

#### ''Xenogenesis serían''

* *Dawn* (Warner, 1987)
* *Adulthood Rites* (Warner, 1988)
* *Imago* (Warner, 1989)
* *Xenogenesis* (Guild America Books, 1989) (omnibus útgáfa af Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago)
* *Lilith's Brood* (Warner, 2000) (önnur omnibus útgáfa af Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago)

#### ''Parable serían'' (einnig nefnd ''Earthseed serían'')
* *[[Parable of the Sower (novel)|Parable of the Sower]]* (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1993)
* *[[Parable of the Talents (novel)|Parable of the Talents]]* (Seven Stories Press, 1998)

### Sjálfstæðar bækur
* *[[Kindred (Octavia Butler)|Kindred]]* (Doubleday, 1979)
* *[[Fledgling (Octavia Butler)|Fledgling]]* (Seven Stories Press, 2005)

### Smásagnasöfn
* *[[Bloodchild and Other Stories]]* (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1995; Seven Stories Press, 2005 inniheldur "Amnesty" og "The Book of Martha")
* *[[Unexpected Stories]]* (2014, inniheldur "A Necessary Being" og "Childfinder")

### Ritgerðir og ræður
* "Lost Races of Science Fiction." *Transmission* (Summer 1980): pp.&nbsp;16–18.
* "Birth of a Writer." *[[Essence (tímarit)|Essence]]* 20 (May 1989): 74+. Reprinted as "Positive Obsession" in *Bloodchild and Other Stories*.
* "Free Libraries: Are They Becoming Extinct?" *Omni* 15.10 (August 1993): 4.
* "Journeys." *Journeys* 30 (Oct 1995). Part of an edition from PEN/Faulkner Foundation, a talk given by Butler at the PEN/Faulkner Awards for Fiction in Rockville, MD at Quill & Brush. Reprinted as "The Monophobic Response" (the title that Butler preferred), in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, ed. Sheree R Thomas (New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2000), pp.&nbsp;415–416.
* "''Devil Girl from Mars'': Why I Write Science Fiction",*Media in Transition*. MIT February 19, 1998. Transcript October 4, 1998.
* "Brave New Worlds: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future", *Essence* 31.1 (May 2000): 164+.
* "A World without Racism" / NPR Essay Un Racism Conference. *NPR Weekend Edition Saturday*. September 1, 2001.
* "Eye Witness: "Butler's Aha! Moment". *O: The Oprah Magazine* 3.5 (May 2002): 79–80.

### Ófullgerðar skáldsögur og önnur verk
* "I Should Have Said..." (minningar, 1998)
* "Paraclete" (skáldsaga, 2001)
* "Spiritus" (skáldsaga, 2001)
* "Parable of the Trickster" (skáldsaga, 1990s-2000s)

### Óútgefið eða ekki í prentun (skáldsögur og sögur)
* "To the Victor" (Saga, 1965, undir höfundarnafninu Karen Adams, winning submission for a competition at Pasadena City College)
* "Loss" (Saga, 1967, 5ta sæti í  Writer's Digest smásagnakeppni)
* *Blindsight* (Skáldsaga: 1978, hafið; 1981, firsta uppkast; 1984, annað uppkast)

## Tilvísanir


## Tengt efni
* Becker, Jennifer. "Octavia Estelle Butler", Lauren Curtright (ed.), *Voices From the Gaps*, University of Minnesota, August 21, 2004.
* "Butler, Octavia 1947–2006", in Jelena O. Krstovic (ed.), *Black Literature Criticism: Classic and Emerging Authors since 1950*, 2nd edn. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 244–258.
* Gates, Henry Louis Jr (ed.), "Octavia Butler". *The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 2nd Edition.* New York: W.W. Norton and Co, 2004: 2515.
* Charlie Rose, "A Conversation with Octavia Butler", *Charlie Rose*. 2000. [Two videos on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2.]
* "Interview with Octavia Butler", *Locus* 44. June 2000, p.&nbsp;6.
* Stephen Barnes, "Interview", *American Visions* 15.5. October–November 2000, pp.&nbsp;24–28.
* Robyn McGee, "Octavia Butler: Soul Sister of Science Fiction", *Fireweed* 73. Fall 2001, pp.&nbsp;60 and following.
* Marilyn Mehafly and AnaLouise Keating, Radio Imagination': Octavia Butler on the Politics of Narrative Embodiment", *MELUS* 26.1. 2001, pp.&nbsp;45–76. . .
* Scott Simon, "Essay on Racism: A Science-Fiction Writer Shares Her View of Intolerance", *Weekend Edition Saturday*. September 1, 2001 [Audio].
* "Interview with Octavia Butler". *[[The Independent]]*, January 2006.
* "Interview with Octavia Butler". *Addicted to Race*, February 6, 2006.