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Octavia butler parable series6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() She began her Earthseed series with Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998). During a break from the Patternmaster book series, Butler wrote her best-selling novel, Kindred (1979) and began publishing her Xenogenesis series in 1984. She published her first novel, Patternmaster, in 1976. ![]() By the late 1970s, she was making enough as an author to stop working a series of temporary jobs. While attending a local writing workshop, she met author Harlan Ellison who encouraged her to attend the Clarion Workshop, focused on science fiction. Extremely shy as a child, she found a creative outlet exploring science fiction and fantasy literature at the public library and began writing science fiction stories as a teen. In her early publishing career, she was one of the few Black women authors in a field dominated by white men. Octavia Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction author. Octavia Butler: Grand Dame of Science Fiction ![]()
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