Scholarship and criticism on Octavia Butler

Scholarship and criticism

Dorothy Allison

• "The Future of Female: Octavia Butler's Mother Lode." In Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 471-78. New York: Meridian, 1990.

Janice Antczak.

• "Octavia E. Butler: New Designs for a Challenging Future" in African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature: Tradition, Transition, Transformation edited by Karen Patricia Smith (Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1994): pp. 311-336.

Beal, Frances M.

• "Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: Interview with Octavia Butler." Black Scholar Volume 17 (March-April 1986): pages 14-18.

Bedore, Pamela.

• "Slavery and Symbiosis in Octavia Butler's Kindred." in Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction v. 31, no. 84 (Spring 2002): pp. 73-81.

Bogstad, Janice.

• "Octavia E. Butler and Power Relationships," Janus, 4 (1978-1979): pp. 28-31.

Bonner, Frances.

• "Difference and Desire, Slavery and Seduction: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Foundation no. 48 (1990): pp. 50-62.

Frances Smith Foster.

• "Octavia Butler's Black Female Future Vision." Extrapolation v 23, no. 1 (1982): pages 37-49.

Lisbeth Gant-Britton.

• "Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: One Alternative to a Futureless Future." in Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism, edited by Helen Merrick and Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press: Nedlands, 1999: pp. 277-294.

Roger Luckhurst.

• "'Horror and Beauty in Rare Combination': The Miscegenate Fictions of Octavia Butler." Women: A Cultural Review, v. 7 no. 1 (1996): pp. 28-38.

Veronica Mixon.

• "Futurist Woman: Octavia Butler." Essence, v. 15 (1979): pp. 12, 15.

Inga M. Muscio.

• "Mind of Her Mind: The Genius of Octavia Butler." Bitch Magazine, No. 15, Winter 2001, p. 36. (Part of Elyce Rae Helford's article in the same issue.)

Cathy Peppers.

• "Dialogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler's Xenogenesis." Science-Fiction Studies Volume 22, Part 1, Number 65. (March 1995): pages 47 - 62.

Ruth Salvaggio.

• "Octavia Butler and the Black Science Fiction Heroine." Black American Literature Forum. Volume 18, Number 2 (1984): pages 78-81. Four Butler novels.

Ruth Salvaggio, Marleen Barr, and Richard Law.

• Suzy McKee Charnas: Octavia Butler: Joan D. Vinge. Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont, 1986.

Sherley Anne Williams.

• "Sherley Anne Williams on Octavia E. Butler." Ms. Volume 14 (March 1986), pages 70-72.

Hoda Zaki.

• "Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler." Science Fiction Studies Volume 17, Part 2 (1990): pages 239-251.

Friend, Beverly.

• "Time Travel as a Feminist Didactic in Works by Phyllis Eisenstein, Marlys Millhiser, and Octavia Butler." Extrapolation Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 1982): pages 50-55. Discusses Butler's Kindred and other works.

Michael S. Cross

• "Fiction." Library Journal, 102 (Aug. 1977): p. 1982. Review of Octavia Butler, Mind of My Mind.

Reviews of published fiction

Geraldine Morse.

• "Reviews." Galileo: Magazine of Science and Fiction, v. 9 (1978): p. 86. Review of Survivor by Octavia Butler.

A. Newson.

• "Review of Octavia Butler's Dawn and Adulthood Rites." Black American Literature Forum Volume 23, Number 2 (1989): pages 389-96.

Judith T. Yamamoto.

• "Fiction." Library Journal, v. 104 (Aug. 1979): pp. 1585-1586. Review of Octavia Butler, Kindred.