Fledgling: Octavia E. Butler's extraordinary final novel

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Curtis, Claire P. "Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia." Utopian Studies 19.3 (2008): 411–431. JSTOR 20719919. Ryan, Tim A. "You Shall See How a Slave Was Made a Woman: The Development of the Contemporary Novel of Slavery, 1976–1987". Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008: 114–148. That is the most unromantic declaration of love I've ever heard. Or is that what you're saying? Do you love me, Shori, or do I just taste good?’ Young, Hershini Bhana. "Performing the Abyss: Octavia Butler's Fledgling and the Law." Studies in the Novel 47.2 (2015): 210+.

That’s what Humans are, too, don’t forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.” Smalls, F. Romall, and Arnold Markoe (eds). "Octavia Estelle Butler". The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Volume 8. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons/Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010: 65–66. Butler's first work published was "Crossover" in the 1971 Clarion Workshop anthology. She also sold the short story "Childfinder" to Harlan Ellison for the anthology The Last Dangerous Visions. "I thought I was on my way as a writer", Butler recalled in her short fiction collection Bloodchild and Other Stories, which contains "Crossover". "In fact, I had five more years of rejection slips and horrible little jobs ahead of me before I sold another word." [27]Now More than Ever, We Wish We Had These Lost Octavia Butler Novels". Electric Literature. August 10, 2017 . Retrieved June 6, 2022.

a b c d e Nayar, Pramod K. "Vampirism and Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's Fledgling." Notes on Contemporary Literature 41.2 (2011). Science Fiction Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on March 25, 2010 . Retrieved March 25, 2010. . [Quote: "EMP|SFM is proud to announce the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees:..."]. Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame ( empsfm.org). Archived March 25, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2013. City Lights Bookshop (2022). "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1986". Commons Social Change Library. This Library of America volume also includes eight short stories and five essays—including two previously uncollected—as well as a newly researched chronology of Butler’s life and career and helpful explanatory notes by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler’s friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction.Pfeiffer, John R. "Butler, Octavia Estelle (b. 1947)", in Richard Bleiler (ed.), Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. 2nd edn. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 147–158.

Fink, Marty. "AIDS Vampires: Reimagining Illness in Octavia Butler's Fledgling. Science Fiction Studies 37.3 (2010): 416-432. Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, the only child of Octavia Margaret Guy, a housemaid, and Laurice James Butler, a shoeshiner. Butler's father died when she was seven. She was raised by her mother and maternal grandmother in what she would later recall as a strict Baptist environment. [7] Bloodchild" (novelette), "The evening and the morning and the night" (novelette), "Near of kin", "Speech sounds", "Crossover", "Positive obsession" (essay), "Furor scribendi" (essay), "Amnesty" (novelette, added in 2005), "The Book of Martha" (added in 2005) For the next five years, Butler worked on the novels that became known as the Patternist series: Patternmaster (1976), Mind of My Mind (1977), and Survivor (1978). In 1978, she was able to stop working at temporary jobs and live on her income from writing. [10] She took a break from the Patternist series to research and write a stand-alone novel, Kindred (1979). She finished the Patternist series with Wild Seed (1980) and Clay's Ark (1984). He showed me his fantasticlibraryfirst, and that helped me warm to him a little. A guy with a room like that in his house couldn’t be all bad.”Ira Flatow, " The Interplay of Science and Science Fiction", NPR: Talk of the Nation, June 18, 2004. [Panel discussion; audio]. She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public, and awards soon followed. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library in Southern California. [6] Early life [ edit ] a b c d e f g h i j k Sanchez-Taylor, Joy-Ann. "Octavia Butler's Fledgling and Daniel Jose Older's "Phantom Overload": The Ethnic Undead." Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity. Dissertation. University of South Florida. Tampa: USF Scholar Commons, 2014. Nittle, Nadra (November 4, 2022). "Octavia Butler's middle school has been renamed in her honor". The 19th. Reviewers also commented favorably on Butler's reinvention of the vampire figure, with Ron Charles of The Washington Post arguing that " Fledgling doesn't just resurrect the pale trappings of vampire lore, it completely transforms them in a startlingly original story about race, family and free will." [1] While reviewing the novel for the journal Gothic Studies, Charles L. Crow noted that "[while] Fledgling may be the least Gothic of Butler's fictions.... Butler makes unsettling demands of the reader, as always, and we must at the beginning accept as narrator and heroine a vampire whose first act is to kill and eat a man who is trying to help her." [6]

a b c Bast, Florian. "'I won't always ask.' Complicating Agency in Octavia Butler's Fledgling." [ permanent dead link] Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies 11 (2010).which, problematically, sort of dehumanizes the humans. as i was reading the book, i kept slipping into a dissociative mode in which i perceived my dog as a symbiont. she is profoundly bonded t Apart from the grossness of the female character and her - ahem - relationships with other characters in the book, I did like the way vampires were presented here (they call themselves the Ina, and they have their own rules and social hierarchies that reminded me of the Xenogenesis saga, except that didn't have gross underage freakiness), and I thought the trial at the end was interesting. The problem with this book is that it's slow AF, and while the human and compassionate part of you wants Shori to get revenge for the awful things that happened to her, the reader and hedonist part of you is going to be bored off your ass waiting for anything resembling a climax (EW, no, not that kind of climax - get out of here you gross person) to happen. This is Butler's weakest effort by far. Science Fiction Chronicle Award for Best Novelette – "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" [76]