Dec 24, 2009
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.
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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