Octavia E. Butler /

"Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan dep...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Canavan, Gerry (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:	Modern masters of science fiction.
Subjects:	Butler, Octavia E. American fiction > African American authors > Biography. Science fiction > Women authors > Biography. African American novelists > Biography. African American women authors > Biography. African American novelists. African American women authors. American fiction > African American authors. Science fiction > Women authors. Biographies. Biography.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: beginning at the end
Childfinder (1947-1971)
Psychogenesis (1971-1976)
To keep thee in all thy ways (1976-1980)
Blindsight (1980-1987)
The training floor (1987-1989)
God of clay (1989-2006)
Paraclete (1999-2006)
Conclusion: unexpected stories
Appendix: "lost races of science fiction" (1980) / Octavia E. Butler.