Date: 13 Jun 89 05:26:51 PDT (Tuesday)
Subject: Author Lists: Octavia Butler
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 15-Mar-95

Octavia Butler is a good author whose work has the unfortunate tendency to
be constantly out of print (although Questar, that most inconsistent of
publishers, seems to be reprinting much of it).  Most of her work involves
two series.  The Patternist series has a society where the Patternists
[linked telepaths controlled by the strongest] is fighting for survival
against the Clayarks [humans infected and mutated by an alien organism]. 
The first 2 novels goes into the origins of the Patternists, the 3rd
examines the origins of the Clayarks.  The Xenogenesis series explores the
consequences when an alien race comes upon the wreckage of Earth several
years after a wholesale nuclear war.  What they decide to do to the human
survivors, and the consequences of this act (plus the interesting nature
of the aliens themselves) forms the basis of the series.  The Patternist
novels can be read more or less independently (as you can see, the
internal chronology has little to do with the order that they were
written).  The Xenogenesis novels should be read in order. 

[O] == Omnibus.  Includes other books.

Butler, Octavia E(stelle)	(U.S.A., 6/22/1947- )	G
	(awards: Hugo 1984, 1985 & Nebula 1984)

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

	Xenogenesis
		Dawn (1987)
		Adulthood Rites (1988)
		Imago (1989)
			[O/3N= Xenogenesis (1989)]

Bloodchild: Novellas and Stories (1995) [C] [forthcoming]
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (1991) [CB] [Pulphouse SS #38]
Kindred (1979)
Parable of the Sower (1993)

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