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Octavia E. Butler / Gerry Canavan.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.U827 Z553 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canavan, Gerry, author.
- Series:
- Modern masters of science fiction
- Modern Masters of Science Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Butler, Octavia E.
- American fiction--African American authors--Biography.
- American fiction.
- Science fiction--Women authors--Biography.
- Science fiction.
- African American novelists--Biography.
- African American novelists.
- African American women authors--Biography.
- African American women authors.
- Science fiction--Women authors.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 225 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
- 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.
- 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) / Octavia E. Butler.
- Notes:
- "Cover credit: Xenon by Debra Lowman."
- Includes bibliographical resources (pages 187-217) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 9780252040665
- 025204066X
- 9780252082160
- 0252082168
- OCLC:
- 946905406
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