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

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