Great portrait of the young Octavia Butler, science fiction writer. Her works include the Patternist series (including Wild Seed), Lilith's Brood (formerly the Xenogenesis trilogy), and the Parable series. Her work is associated with Afrofuturism, where sci-fi parallels a marginalized, Black experience. She was the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant and received both Hugo and Nebula awards. If you've missed out on her, go catch up!

acrylic on canvas 28″ x 36″ 2008, Boston, MA commissioned by Michelle Bodden NARRATIVE “The only lasting truth is change. God is change” ~ Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butl…

Octavia Butler's editor looks back at some of the worst — and best — out-of-print covers for the late author's influential books.

A new exhibition opening this spring examines the life and work of celebrated author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), the first science fiction writer to...

Octavia E. Butler was born on June 22, 1947, and began her writing career in the 1970s. Her books blended elements of science fiction and African American spiritualism. Her first novel, Patternmaster (1976), led the five-volume Patternist series. Butler went on to write several other novels, including Kindred (1979), and Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1999), of the Parable series.

This year is the 10th anniversary of the great science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler's untimely death; next year marks what would have been her 70th birthday. Butler created a body of work that helped launch a new genre called Afro-Futurism