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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
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culture · American science fiction writer (1947–2006) · science fiction writer · novelist · writer · also Octavia E. Butler, Octavia Butler, Butler
Born 22 June 1947 · Died 24 February 2006 · Q239739
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2026· 6 entries
“15 Fascinating Facts About Octavia Butler”
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“I will help poor black youngsters go to college”
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“Yori, Human purpose isn’t what you say it is or what I say it is. It’s what your biology says it is—what your genes say it is.”
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“destiny is to take root among the stars.”
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2022).
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2021· 4 entries
Awarded Ignyte Award for Best Comics Team (2021).
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Published “Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data” in Cell — cited 15,255 times.
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FX ordered an eight-episode miniseries, Kindred, based on Butler's book of the same name
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Published “2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure” in European Heart Journal — cited 12,278 times.
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded Premi Ictineu (2020).
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Brown and Toshi Reagon, creator of an opera adaptation of Parable of the Sower, began collaborating on a podcast called Octavia's Parables
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Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,494 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Published “Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data” in Cell — cited 15,438 times.
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2018· 2 entries
Which would have been Butler's 71st birthday
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Published “Integrating single-cell transcriptomic data across different conditions, technologies, and species” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 12,994 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel (2017).
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2016· 1 entry
Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,894 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Writers adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha co-edited Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (AK Press), a collection of 20 short stories and essays about social justice, inspired by
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2013· 1 entry
Published “Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer” in Nature — cited 8,829 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Published “Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 6,843 times.
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Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,807 times.
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Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,668 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2010).
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2006· 2 entries
Died 2006-02-24.
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The Carl Brandon Society established the Octavia E
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2005· 2 entries
Won Langston Hughes Medal (2005).
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Was inducted into Chicago State University's International Black Writers Hall of Fame
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Undoing Gender” — cited 5,148 times.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novel for Parable of the Talents (2000).
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Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 37,048 times.
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1999· 1 entry
After her mother's death, Butler moved to Lake Forest Park, Washington
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1995· 2 entries
Became the first science-fiction writer to be awarded a John D
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Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship
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1987· 1 entry
“The Evening and the Morning and the Night”
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1985· 3 entries
Awarded Locus Award for Best Novelette for Bloodchild (1985).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Bloodchild (1985).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Bloodchild (1985).
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1984· 3 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Speech Sounds (1984).
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Butler released the last book of the Patternmaster series, Clay's Ark
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When "Speech Sounds" won the Hugo Award for Short Story and, a year later, "Bloodchild" won the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, and the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Novelette
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1983· 1 entry
Butler published "Speech Sounds", a story set in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles where a pandemic has caused most humans to lose their ability to read, speak, or write
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1980· 1 entry
Butler published the fourth book of the Patternist series, Wild Seed, whose narrative became the series' origin story
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1978· 1 entry
Was able to stop working at temporary jobs and live on her income from writing
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1974· 1 entry
Butler worked on a series of novels that would later be collected as the Patternist series, which depicts the transformation of humanity into three genetic groups: the dominant Patternists, humans who have been bred with
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1968· 1 entry
Butler graduated from PCC with an associate of arts degree with a focus in history
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1965· 1 entry
Butler worked during the day and attended Pasadena City College (PCC) at night
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1947· 2 entries
In Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles
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Born 1947-06-22.
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