#octavia e butler

[forever70s]

science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1979)

#octavia e butler #octavia butler #author #writer #1979 #black history month

[timelesslords]

Father, don't you see I'm burning?

Sigmund Freud - Interpretation of Dreams // Jodi Picoult - Vanishing Acts // Desireé Dallagiacomo - Sink // Nicola Yoon - The Sun Is Also a Star // Victoria Chang - "Obit" // John Darnielle - Wolf in the White Van // Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe // Octavia E. Butler - Parable of the Sower // Mary Shelley - Frankenstein // Eula Bliss - The Pain Scale

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[souldagger]

oh octavia butler's notes on writing we're really in it now

#i went down a bit of a rabbit hole reading the bits of her handwritten notes i could find online today #apparently she was an avid journaler and notetaker but only a couple pages seem to be digitized :'( #huntington library san marino california let me innn #.txt #octavia e butler

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[philosophors]

“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”

— Octavia E. Butler

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[lobster-tales]

Books Read in 2023:

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.

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[eleanor-arroway]

Octavia E. Butler's lost works

"There's much more to her career than the dozen or so books we know; out of the spirit of brutal perfectionism that drove her, she held a lot of interesting and worthy work back. I've talked a lot about the treasures of the Huntington in these pages: the unpublished Blindsight, "Evening" [1] and Paraclete; the many Tricksters; the alternative Xenogenesis, the lost short stories and essays and sequels and interviews and plays. This material should not be left only to the small number of scholars who are able to make their way to the Huntington; much of it can see, and deserves to see, publication. These are not discarded scraps or abandonded, embarrassing mistakes; it's just more.

Butler's incredible productivity, coupled with her intense self-criticism, self-censorship, and perfectionism, has conspired to create a vast intertextual hidden archive of alternative versions and lost tales that will, I hope, reinvigorate the study of her work as more scholars are able to get to the Huntington and as more of it trickles out in published form."

From Gerry Canavan's biography of Octavia E. Butler in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series

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[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler is available to read here

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[woahpip]

So Be It, See to It: From the Archives of Octavia Butler

#i love seeing her notes they are incredibly beautiful and powerful #and make me feel better aboutwhat i feel are rambles in my notebooks #octavia e butler

[grumpyoldsnake]

Finished reading Dawn by Octavia E. Butler! This book didn’t amaze me or anything, but it was interesting enough that I’ll probably read the next one just to see where Butler is going with all this. I liked the worldbuilding. The prose didn't stand out to me. The themes… left me with mixed feelings, and are a big part of why I want to see what conclusions Butler is going to draw by the end of this before forming any solid opinions. No specific spoilers, but allusions to the premise and its impacts. . The book's reputation It's a shame that this book has such a reputation for being disturbing; I feel like almost every time I've seen it mentioned people will say they had to walk away from parts of it. Not that it isn't disturbing, it absolutely is, but having seen all of those comments I went in so guarded that I think I failed to connect emotionally. As far as disturbing themes go… unless you have a specific trigger or squick about sexual coercion such that you find it more disturbing than other types of coercion and violence, to me this felt about on par with books like Lord of the Flies, The Freeze-Frame Revolution, and Mirror Dance. Maybe more unrelenting about things; the unpleasantness taking up a greater portion of the book. (…By which I mean all of it. Beginning to end. :'D) . Themes about consent I’ve seen the themes of captivity-as-rescue, consent, helplessness, unwilling-sympathy-for-captors, and manipulation explored in ways that were more compelling to me before. But I also recognize that this is only the first book in the series. I did appreciate that Butler mostly treated the lack of meaningful choice and lack of consensual human connection as the points of real horror, and as the root cause of most human-on-human violence. . Themes about genetics I had… very mixed feelings about the our-children-won't-be-humans angsting. Again, the lack of consent was the major moral issue to me; the concept of having involuntary children at all is the horror to me. The genetic panic, on the other hand… I don't know. In the context of the story, sure, it'd be the end of the human race. And that's fine as a thought experiment, even if I don't find it particularly compelling on a personal level. (I think the only way I would find it compelling is if the thought went one step further: "And our children are going to go on to carry out this same cruel process on some other species…") But it kind of falls apart if you try to make any kind of connection back to the real world with it, because the closest comparisons I can see are to fear and hatred of disability and interracial children, and on both fronts: oof. But that may well be what Butler is intending to explore! So… again. I'm curious to see what her conclusions will be, if I manage to get through any of the rest of the series.

#dawn #octavia e butler #dawn by octavia e butler #xenogenesis #scifi #book reviews #my stuff #my reading

[thebookishwallflower]

THIS IS FROM 1993 WHAT THE FUCK

- Parable of the Talents, Octavia E Bulter (Sequel to Parable of the Sower)

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[mysharona1987]

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[souldagger]

Why do I write Because I am an avid collector of people and people-fragments Because I am an egoist, and the power to create and manipulate whole worlds pleases my vanity. Because symbiosis pleases me more than parasitism. I am not a people-person in the usual sense. Much of the time I'm a hermit. Yet I have a human need to reach out to my fellow beings, and feel that I've touched some of them. Because I would rather grow and learn and add to myself and writing encourages it. [crossed out] The only times I have ever considered suicide have been times when I thought I might have to accept the narrowness. [crossed out text ends; there's a small, underlined note on the margin next to the crossed out section that reads "Take care".] Because I don't think I could stand the narrow, timid person I would be if I did not. Because nothing else seemed worth doing. Because writing, even at it's worst seemed better than anything else I could do

Octavia E. Butler's notes from the Huntington Library archive (photo source)

#this one gets its own post bc. o|-< #.txt #words #octavia e butler

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[toast-com]

Everyone should go read a book by Octavia E. Butler! She was a black sci-fi writer and as someone who's read two of the three books in her series, Lilith's Brood, it's an amazing series.

Her books have such a interesting vibe to them, they are very good.

As a black women myself it always inspires me when I read works by black writers (I have my older sister to thank for that she would give us classics to read and she gave me Beloved).

Everyone should also read Beloved by Toni Morrison and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou.

#toasty talks #octavia e butler #toni morrison #black women writers

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler

goodreads

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before. The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book, but I've heard good things about Octavia E. Butler's books.

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