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Survivor (novel)

2011-01-07T06:55:17Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Survivor''' is a 1978 novel in the [[Patternist series]] by [[Octavia E. Butler]].

==Reviews and discussions==
[http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=13324 Review] by [[Jo Walton]] at Tor.com

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Clay's Ark

2011-01-07T06:55:06Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Clay's Ark''' is a 1984 novel in the [[Patternist series]] by [[Octavia E. Butler]].

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Patternmaster

2011-01-07T06:54:55Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Patternmaster''' is a 1976 novel in the [[Patternist series]] by [[Octavia E. Butler]].

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Mind of My Mind

2011-01-07T06:54:47Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Mind of My Mind''' is a 1977 novel by [[Octavia E. Butler]] in the [[Patternist series]].

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Wild Seed

2011-01-07T06:54:38Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Wild Seed''' is a 1980 novel by [[Octavia E. Butler]] in the [[Patternist series]].

Shortlisted for retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].

==Editions==
* 1980: Doubleday
* 1988: Warner
[[paternist]]

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_wildseed.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (Aug. 1999)

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Paternist

2011-01-07T06:53:10Z

Alicegabriel: Created page with "Patternist series [WS, MOMM, PM, and CA also published as Seed to Harvest) Wild Seed (1980) Mind of My Mind (1977) Patternmaster (1976) Clay's Ark (1984) Survivor (1978)"

Patternist series [WS, MOMM, PM, and CA also published as Seed to Harvest)

Wild Seed (1980)
Mind of My Mind (1977)
Patternmaster (1976)
Clay's Ark (1984)
Survivor (1978)

Wild Seed

2011-01-07T06:51:19Z

Alicegabriel:

Wild Seed

2011-01-07T06:51:02Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Wild Seed''' is a 1980 novel by [[Octavia E. Butler]] in the [[Patternist series]].

Shortlisted for retrospective [[James Tiptree, Jr. Award]].

==Editions==
* 1980: Doubleday
* 1988: Warner
[paternist]

==Further reading==
* [http://bdg.feministsf.net/archives/bdg_wildseed.txt Book discussion group] on feministSF mailing list (Aug. 1999)

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Kindred (novel)

2011-01-07T06:49:52Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Kindred''' is a 1979 novel by [[Octavia E. Butler]]. The novel tells the story of [[Dana]], an African American woman in an interracial relationship who is mysteriously thrown back in time to the slave-holding South (Maryland). In that time, she has some role to play in the lives of Rufus and Alice, a white slaveholder and a black slave, respectively. Dana is brought back repeatedly to rescue Rufus, and eventually is complicit in the forced sexual relationship between Rufus and Alice--which produces the child, Hagar, Dana's ancestor.

==Publications and adaptations==
* 1979:
* ? : SciFi.com Online Dramatic Presentation, starring Alfre Woodard, Lynn Whitfield; featuring Ruby Dee. http://www.scifi.com/kindred/

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Fledgling (novel)

2011-01-07T06:49:39Z

Alicegabriel:

Novel by [[Octavia E. Butler]].

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Parable of the Sower

2011-01-07T06:48:39Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Parable of the Sower''' is a 1994 novel by [[Octavia Butler]]. It was nominated for a Nebula in 1994-95. It was followed by ''[[Parable of the Talents]]''.

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Parable of the Talents

2011-01-07T06:48:25Z

Alicegabriel:

[[Image:butler-PoTalents.jpg|thumb|right|Popular US edition]]

Novel by [[Octavia E. Butler]]. Sequel to ''[[Parable of the Sower]]''.

==Editions==
* 1998: Seven Stories Press, New York. ISBN 1-888363-81-9.

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Xenogenesis trilogy

2011-01-07T06:47:38Z

Alicegabriel:

Trilogy by [[Octavia Butler]]. A tightly woven trilogy about a central character and her offspring.

* ''[[Dawn]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Adulthood Rites]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Imago]]'' (1989)

The trilogy was republished in one volume as ''Lilith's Brood'' (2000).

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Imago

2006-05-31T22:49:16Z

Alicegabriel:

The third and last book of Octavia Butler's ''Xenogenesis'' trilogy.

'''Plot'''
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In Imago our protagonist is Jodahs, another Lilith Yiapo’s child, a mistake in person. Due to a problem in the breeding process, Nikanj “build” the first ooloi construct child. The consensus are broken, there should be no ooloi construct child, not yet. The Oankalis thought it would be very dangerous, and unpredictable. So, they decided to get it back to the mother ship. But for insistence of it’s family, it can stay on Earth but it and it’s family had to live in isolation, away from the baby ship (that serves as oankali’s cities) and other persons.

The book tell us about Jodahs’ problems to control itself: it can altered the genetic configuration of things only by touching them, and it changes itself as well, without any control of it, or sometimes without any aware of it. After a while it meets humans and with the connection with them it can control itself, it gets more focus.

The big problem with Jodahs is that it needs young humans to mate, and all humans in Earth are too old to it (that’s because an ooloi’s life time is regulated by it’s mates, so if Jodahs find it an old mate its life time would be reduced in decades). But one day, wandering in the forest he found a strange couple with some kind of deforming disease. Healing them he finds out that they’re a fertile and young couple, who came from a little society of people who developed the ability to breed without the oankalis and believes the oankali to be daemons.

By the same time, it's sibling, Aaron, is entering his own metamorphosis and we find out that it too is an ooloi construct.

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Adulthood Rites

2006-05-31T15:58:08Z

Alicegabriel:

'''Adulthood Rites'''
The second book of Octavia Butler's ''Xenogenesis'' trilogy.

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'''Plot'''

Akin is the first male ''construct'' (this is the name that indicates cross-breeding oankali/human child) born from a human mother. He´s Lilith Iyapo first male child.

After the humans arrive in Earth, they could decide if they’ll stay with the Oankalis and breed with them, or leave them and try to make their own cities and live a long infertile life. Since the Oankali made genetic modifications in all humans in their ship, the human are no longer able to procreate without an ooloi.

Because of that, some humans begin to steal construct child hoping they could breed normally when they reach adult age. This book narrates how Akin, the first male son of Lilith, was captured by a group of mans and lived between humans for a long time.

Feminist SF Wiki:Suggestions

2006-05-31T15:32:54Z

Alicegabriel:

Suggestions & ideas, and thoughts about interesting directions for the FSFwiki. What would you like to see here?

(1) Better-looking templates! How do we make templates so they are not boxes with ugly borders?

(2) Encyclopedic information about feminist SF writers and works (books, movies, etc.).

(3) Feminist critiques and analyses of all kinds of works, whether feminist, sexist, or somewhere in between.

(4) Community resources--for creators (writers, game designers, artists) and consumers (readers, gamers, watchers) and everyone in between.

(5) Information that highlights the intersections : language, ethnicity, amateur/pro status, genres, sexuality and gender gender gender.

(6) Information in another languages, other than english.

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Talk:List of stereotypes of female characters

2006-05-31T15:17:03Z

Alicegabriel:

it would be interesting making a discussion about it:

"common portrayals of women in SF/fantasy" vs. "portrayals of women in Feminist SF"

Talk:Feminist SF

2006-05-31T15:08:14Z

Alicegabriel:

We could try, here, to write an encyclopedia-entry style of definition. It should include several different answers:

- Feminist sf is work that qualifies as feminist by the standards of judgement of various feminisms. (What are those standards?)

- There is a historical feminist sf of works that have been considered by feminists to be central to an ongoing literary conversation

- Feminist sf as a particular feminist literary movement of the 70s and early 80s

- If we look at what has been considered SF and what has not in the 19th century, the genre could stand some redefining. Gothic romance and the supernatural should at least be included in definitions of "speculative fiction".

== some ideas ==

maybe interesting to define feminist sf making a contrast between what´s "feminist sf" and what´s "women writting sf". i don´t think those things are the same.

i was thinking of writting something about feminist sf as thought experiments of alternatives to or disruptions of patriarchal situations.

and maybe we can do here a list of quotations about feminist sf, like that of Donna Haraway, who writes in her cyborg manifesto that feminists writting sf are “our storytellers exploring what it means to be embodied in high-tech worlds”

Talk:Feminist SF

2006-05-31T14:46:04Z

Alicegabriel: some ideas

We could try, here, to write an encyclopedia-entry style of definition. It should include several different answers:

- Feminist sf is work that qualifies as feminist by the standards of judgement of various feminisms. (What are those standards?)

- There is a historical feminist sf of works that have been considered by feminists to be central to an ongoing literary conversation

- Feminist sf as a particular feminist literary movement of the 70s and early 80s

- If we look at what has been considered SF and what has not in the 19th century, the genre could stand some redefining. Gothic romance and the supernatural should at least be included in definitions of "speculative fiction".

== some ideas ==

maybe interesting to define feminist sf making a contrast between what´s "feminist sf" and what´s "women writting sf". i don´t think those things are the same.

and maybe we can do here a list of quotations about feminist sf, like that of Donna Haraway, who writes in her cyborg manifesto that feminists writting sf are “our storytellers exploring what it means to be embodied in high-tech worlds”