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Unexpected Stories is a collection of two short speculative fiction works by Octavia Butler that was posthumously published in 2014. The collection includes A Necessary Being and Childfinder . Plot
This makes Octavia Butler not just a good science-fiction writer, but also one of the most interesting and innovative political writers around today." [ 20 ] Janet St. John saw Butler as "making writing a habit," and she supplemented our understanding of that with "her first hand analysis and discussion of the impetus and influence in her own ...
Nilges, Mathias. “‘We Need the Stars’: Change, Community, and the Absent Father in Octavia Butler's ‘Parable of the Sower’ and ‘Parable of the Talents'.’” Callaloo 32.4 2009 pp. 1332–1352. Stanford, Ann Folwell. "A Dream of Communitas: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents and Roads to the Possible."
Octavia is a Roman tragedy that focuses on three days in the year 62 AD during which Nero divorced and exiled his wife Claudia Octavia and married another (Poppaea Sabina).The play also deals with the irascibility of Nero and his inability to take heed of the philosopher Seneca's advice to rein in his passions.
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Octavia Butler.It was first published in Omni in May 1987, and subsequently republished in The Year's Best Science Fiction (fifth edition); in Best New SF 2; in Omni Visions One; in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora ...
Parable of the Sower is a 1993 speculative fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler.It is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality. [1]
Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler that incorporates time travel and is modeled on slave narratives.Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.
"Speech Sounds" is a science fiction short story by American writer Octavia E. Butler.It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in 1983. It won Butler her first Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1984. [1]