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OCTAVIA BUTLER
Date of Birth: June 22, 1947
Place of Birth: Pasadena, CA
Major Works: Patternmaster, Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents
The Book of Martha
from Parable of The Sower
Speech Sounds
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Citation: Butler, Octavia E. “Chapter 9: The Evening and the Morning and the
Night.” Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century, Wesleyan University Press, 2006, pp. 265–304.