Octavia Butler (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Octavia E. Butler contributed short stories to various science-fiction collections and periodicals, including Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Future Life, and Clarion. Her story “Speech Sounds” won the Hugo Award in 1984; a short work of fiction, “Bloodchild,” was honored with the Hugo and various other prizes in 1985.
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Broad and growing popularity among readers of science fiction greeted first Butler’s Patternist series of novels and then her Xenogenesis series. She won multiple prizes...
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