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Armitt, Lucie. "Space, Time and Female Genealogies: A Kristevan Reading of Feminist Science Fiction." Image and Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century, edited by Sarah Sceats and Gail Cunningham, pp. 51-61. London: Longman, 1996.

Applies a psychoanalytic analysis based on the work of Julia Kristeva to Octavia Butler's writing and other feminist science fiction.

Campbell, Loretta H. "Planting a Seed." Belles Lettres 10, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 86.

Praises Butler's "dazzling apocalyptic visions" and "straightforward prose" in her Parable of a Sower.

Card, Orson Scott. Review of Wild Seed, Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago, by Octavia Butler. Fantasy & Science Fiction 78, No. 2 (February 1990): 40-3.

Praises Butler's writing, but asserts the need for another novel to continue the story told...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Ruth Salvaggio (essay date Summer 1984)
   2. Octavia Butler with Frances M. Beal (interview date March/April 1986)
   3. Sandra Y. Govan (essay date Spring-Summer 1986)
   4. Adele S. Newson (review date Summer 1989)
   5. Frances Bonner (essay date Spring 1990)
   6. Hoda M. Zaki (essay date July 1990)
   7. Octavia Butler with Randall Kenan (interview date Spring 1991)
   8. Orson Scott Card (review date January 1992)
   9. Michelle Erica Green (essay date 1994)
   10. Rebecca O. Johnson (review date February 1994)
   11. Elyce Rae Helford (essay date Summer 1994)
   12. Hoda Zaki (review date July 1994)
   13. Cathy Peppers (essay date March 1995)
   14. Jim Miller (review date February/March 1996)
   15. Danille Taylor-Guthrie (review date 31 March 1996)
   16. Octavia Butler with Stephen W. Potts (interview date November 1996)
   17. Madelyn Jablon (essay date 1997)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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