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Octavia E. Butler's lost works
"There's much more to her career than the dozen or so books we know; out of the spirit of brutal perfectionism that drove her, she held a lot of interesting and worthy work back. I've talked a lot about the treasures of the Huntington in these pages: the unpublished Blindsight, "Evening" [1] and Paraclete; the many Tricksters; the alternative Xenogenesis, the lost short stories and essays and sequels and interviews and plays. This material should not be left only to the small number of scholars who are able to make their way to the Huntington; much of it can see, and deserves to see, publication. These are not discarded scraps or abandonded, embarrassing mistakes; it's just more.
Butler's incredible productivity, coupled with her intense self-criticism, self-censorship, and perfectionism, has conspired to create a vast intertextual hidden archive of alternative versions and lost tales that will, I hope, reinvigorate the study of her work as more scholars are able to get to the Huntington and as more of it trickles out in published form."
From Gerry Canavan's biography of Octavia E. Butler in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series
#octavia butler#octavia e butler#Octavia E. Butler#I am once again asking you to release the butler archives#star trek fanfiction#parable of the trickster#earthseed#books#Xenogenesis#lilith's brood#so much more#this biography was also a great peek at the underwater part of the iceberg of her work so to speak#gerry canavan#science fiction
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Man, if the Lilith's Brood/Xenogenesis trilogy had a fandom of even moderate size, I would be irretrievably weird about it, rather than just endearingly weird about it.
Who can I beg to read those books? (rhetorical)
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Class assignment to create a representation of the Oankali aliens from Octavia Butler's Dawn. It's a very interesting book, I'd recommend it.
#octavia butler#dawn#octavia butler dawn#oankali#jdahya#ooloi#scifi#fanart#literature#aliens#concept art#xenogenesis#Lilith's brood#my art
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Having a hard time articulating this. But I think one of the reasons I love Octavia Butler's work so much is that, as much as her work is about systems of power, she first empowers her protagonists before she disempowers them. She let's the reader be freed from seeing most realistic depictions of abuse, and then sets up a fantastical form of power to explore the themes in. This makes her books simultaneously disturbing and empowering.
Thinking specifically about Wild Seed and Dawn. Lilith has protection from physical and sexual assault. Cool! Now to deal with an alien race that has a complex plan to coerce humans into breeding with them. Anyanwu is powerful enough that no mortal man can harm her. Cool! Now here is an immortal man that can track her wherever she is.
#shut up clark#please talk to me about this I'm desperate#octavia butler#Lilith's brood#Xenogenesis#wild seed#patternist series
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We called our need for contact with others and our need for mates hunger. The word had not been chosen frivolously. One who could hunger could starve.
Imago by Octavia Butler (1989)
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[2024|018] Adulthood Rights (1988) written by Octavia E. Butler
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Lilith to Nikanj
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reading the lilith's brood trilogy like ........I don't think this scene was intended as erotic but.......... what if it was..... to me ..... what then
#octavia butler#lilith's brood#the ooloi are so fucked up and so precious#dawn#adulthood rites#imago#reading tag
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Andi’s Favourite Books || Xenogenesis/Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler
Genre: Science Fiction
Lilith wakes up locked in a room and she has no idea where she is. A strange voice tells her some information and asks questions and soon she finds out that she is on a spaceship and has been taken by aliens who claim to have saved her, along with some other humans.
Why you should read it:
Aliens with poly relationships;
Progressive in terms of gender and sexuality for the time it was written in, but not so much by today's standards;
Great and complex black main character;
Messed up characters and relationships;
Feels like a thriller;
Biblical references;
Accessible writing style with no technobabble;
Even though it's scifi, it's very concerned about nature.
Notes: The first book is my favourite and the third the one I like the least, but I still appreciate the trilogy as a whole.
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Well if Octavia Butler’s Turkish publisher gets to put my 2020 tumblr fanart on their print cover, I get to put published Octavia Butler cover artist on my resume.
Just wish I got $0.01 for it or a tiny bit of recognition.
#this is the second time this has happened#Octavia Butler#lilith's brood#lilith x nikanj#avoyagetoarcturus#and they undressed Lilith how disrespectful
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finished Dawn by Octavia Butler (for class) & i'm having REEL THORTS which are ENGAGING THE COMPLEX QUESTIONS POSED BY THE NOVEL. including: is this whole thing ethical? how do people connect with one another? can i see myself in an alien polycule? (current answer: only if it wasn't heterosexual in binary or trinary ways)
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“Hi my name is Nikanj, and welcome to my 100 baby challenge!”
#tabby says something#lilith's brood#I’m so sorry for this#but you know they would have loved 100 baby challenges
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Hey, guys! I'm doing fanfic commissions, if anyone wants to DM me.
At least 1,000 words for at least $10. (I might write more than 1,000, and you might tip more than 10.)
I write for:
Danganronpa
Disney Descendants
Spiderverse
Narnia
Percy Jackson or Heroes of Olympus
Undertale or Deltarune
FNAF
Lilith's Brood/Xenogenesis Trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago)
The Hunger Games/TBOSAS
Musicals
Dimension 20
other? (If you want to ask about a fandom, it doesn't hurt to DM!)
#danganronpa#disney descendants#spiderverse#chronicles of narnia#narnia#pjo#heroes of olympus#hoo#undertale#deltarune#utdr#fnaf#lilith's brood#xenogenesis trilogy#dawn by octavia butler#the hunger games#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#thg#tbosas#dimension 20#fanfic commissions#please boost
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Okay so Jodahs is from a series that is like the polar opposite of the other one I submitted, these are DARK books, PLEASE do not jump into them without reading a little about them first. It's Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler, and it's about an alien species that goes around the galaxy finding species on the brink of extinction and "saving" them by enslaving and interbreeding with them.
So Jodahs is one of the first human-alien hybrids born, and it's the first one who turns out to be ooloi, which is the aliens' third sex. And so basically poor Jodahs is just trying to figure out how to live its life and fit into the world and get people to respect it as a person and as an ooloi. Especially since its ooloi traits didn't develop till later and it looks pretty masc, so people try to just pretend it's a human male even though it doesn't want to be seen that way. Very real shit poor Jodahs has to deal with on top of very sci-fi shit.
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Thinking about the choice of Butler's Xenogenesis series. You can have kids, and they will be better than you, but you will not recognize them, you will never understand them. You can have a lover who will touch you and know you in perfect pleasure, but it will make regular human touch repulsive in comparison.
You can finally shed the imperfections of humanity, but it is not without cost. In order to rid humanity of the things that destroy it, you also have to give up the things that kept it going.
You are on earth but everyone is preparing to leave. You saved your species but only by becoming absorbed. Truly, you can never go home again.
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There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.
Dawn: A Lilith's Brood Novel by Octavia Butler (1987)
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