Facts about Octavia Butler

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   The Parable series by Octavia Butler was originally intended as a trilogy, but she never completed the third installment, Parable of the Trickster.

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   Kindred, published in 1979, became Octavia Butler's first novel to explore time travel through the relationship between a contemporary African American woman and her enslaved ancestor in antebellum Maryland.

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   Octavia Butler published her debut novel Parable of the Sower in 1993, introducing the concept of Earthseed religion in a near-future dystopian Los Angeles.

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   In 1995 Octavia Butler became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, earning 295000 dollars over five years.

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