Any Octavia E Butler fans?

[njari2]

She's a black sci-fi writer. She's written Kindred, the Xenogenesis series, Lilith's Brood, Clay's Ark. Any other fans out there?

[sexydeltagirl]

She's a black sci-fi writer. She's written Kindred, the Xenogenesis series, Lilith's Brood, Clay's Ark. Any other fans out there?
Yessir! she is one of my favorite authors I love Kindred and thought Parable of the Sower was genius...

I've been meaning to get my hands on Fledging but haven't at the moment...

[elle simple]

Read Kindred for the sohh book club heh http://forums.sohh.com/showthread.php?t=802545

havent checked out anything else by her, it was interesting but didnt blow my mind. What do you recommend as a second book by her to get into?

[caramellady85]

I've been meaning to get my hands on Fledging but haven't at the moment...
get it.. it's good.
i've read that and kindred... and i bought Lilith's Brood a while ago but i have like 3 other books i need to finish first...

[Innkyblott]

Any? I think everyone here who reads has read her. I wished Samuel Delany was as well known outside the stereotypical sci-fi circles as she is.

[njari2]

Any? I think everyone here who reads has read her. I wished Samuel Delany was as well known outside the stereotypical sci-fi circles as she is.


I'm pretty new to SOHH, so I had no idea who had read what. Never heard of Delany. He a brother? Not that I wont read him if he aint.

[Innkyblott]

Yep. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany) He and Octavia E. Butler were known as "the" black writers in Sci-fi. Delany wrote the highly acclaimed Nova.

[njari2]

Read Kindred for the sohh book club heh http://forums.sohh.com/showthread.php?t=802545

havent checked out anything else by her, it was interesting but didnt blow my mind. What do you recommend as a second book by her to get into?

The Xenogenesis series. Its actually three books combined into Lilith's Brood. When I typed Lilith's Brood I actually was thinking of the Patternist series. Here's a description of the three books included in Lilith's Brood from Amazon. :

Book Description
Dawn: After nuclear war destroys the world, Earths survivors are rescued by the miraculously powerful Oankali aliens- who survive by merging genetically with primitive peoples without their permission.

Adulthood Rites: Desperate to regain their world, childless humans seek to cleanse the alien taint by kidnapping hybrid children. But the raiders are blind to the truth of Earths new children.

Imago: The futures of both humans and aliens rest in one young beings successful metamorphosis into adulthood.


The Patternist series is collected into one volume in the book Seed to Harvest. It includes the books Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster. Here is a description from bn.com :

In her classic Patternist series, multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler established the themes of identity and transformation that echo throughout her distinguished career. Now collected for the first time in one volume, these four novels take readers on a wondrous odyssey from a mythic, primordial past to a fantastic far future.

In ancient Africa, a female demigod of nurture and fertility mates with a powerful, destructive male entity. Together they birth a race of madmen, visionaries, and psychics who cling to civilization's margins and back alleys for millennia, coming together in a telepathic Pattern just as Earth is consumed by a cosmic invasion. Now these new beings-no longer merely human-will battle to rule the transfigured world...

[njari2]

Yep. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany) He and Octavia E. Butler were known as "the" black writers in Sci-fi. Delany wrote the highly acclaimed Nova.

Damn, he's light.