OctaviaButler.net A fan blog for Octavia E. Butler, writer.

Thank you for this thoughtful and thorough blog on my favorite sf author. I love reading Octavia Butler's book and would be hard pressed to choose a favorite.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA is the recipient of the papers of Octavia Butler. The collection is currently being processed and will be available to researchers in the coming year, according to the website PDF. Go to the website to read the article at www.huntington.org.

I first read Octavia E. Butler in a graduate school class about women's utopian and dystopian fiction, along with works by Marge Piercy and Doris Lessing. She was totally unique and a visionary. Thank you for a great tribute site to a wonderful woman and extraordinary writer.

I took an African American Literature class at the university - that is how I found Octavia Butler. In that class I read Kindred and I got hooked. Now I own most of her books and read many of them. I try to read slowly because I fear the moment when I can say I read them all...

I needed to find somewhere to express the amazing inspiration Ocatvia Butler has given me over the yeears. I find myself reading her books for the 3rd time. the Pattern Master series beig my favorite but all are brilliant! Love admiration and Gratefulness fills my mind and heart! Thank you Ms Butler! your words will last forever!

I read Fledgling because I was on a vampire kick. How can more people I know not have heard of Octavia Butler?!? I am dumbfounded that it took me so long to find her. I have been an avid reader of sci fi and fantasy since my teens (now I'm in my 30's) and have been reading Butler for the past 3 months. She is an amazing writer. What will I do when I finish the books I have left? There is no one like her that I know of to read...

I was in the bookstore a few weeks ago and decided to pick up another Octavia Butler book. I read the back flap of Fledgeling only to have my heart drop through my stomach. In the 4 years since I had read the Parable of the Sower, one of my favorite writers had died! I started tearing up right there. I have never connected on so many levels with a writer, and was profoundly saddened to hear she died in 2006. I gave birth to my second daughter that year and hadn't been able to read for years

I have been a fan of Octavia Bulter's for several years. She was an absolutely brillant science fiction writer. Her life is an inspiration and tribute to the human spirit of triumph over adversity.