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Author Canavan, Gerry, author.

Title Octavia E. Butler / Gerry Canavan
Published Urbana, Chicago, Springfield, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 225 pages)
Series Modern Masters of Science Fiction
Modern masters of science fiction.
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) / by Octavia E. Butler
Summary "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 departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Butler, Octavia E.
SUBJECT Butler, Octavia E. fast
Butler, Octavia E. 1947-2006 gnd
Subject American fiction -- African American authors -- Biography
African American novelists -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
African American novelists
American fiction -- African American authors
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780252099106
0252099109