Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster (Patternist) (109 page)

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Butler’s 1965 senior class photo from John Muir High School in Pasadena, California.

Butler reading a book in 1975, the year before she published
Patternmaster.

Butler on a book tour for
Parable of the Sower
in New York City in 1993.

Butler addresses the audience at Marygrove College, Detroit, during the Contemporary American Author Lecture Series in 1994.

Butler won both Nebula and Hugo awards for her contributions to the science fiction genre. (Photo courtesy of Anna Fedor.)

Butler with authors Tananarive Due, Jewelle Gomez (standing), Samuel R. Delany, and Steven Barnes (sitting) at Clark Atlanta University’s conference for African American science fiction writers—the first of its kind—in 1997.

When Butler passed away in 2006
,
the
New York Times
eulogized her as a world-renowned author whose science fiction explored “far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human.”

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Patternmaster
copyright © 1976 by Octavia E. Butler

Wild Seed
copyright © 1980 by Octavia E. Butler

Mind of My Mind
copyright © 1977 by Octavia E. Butler

Clay’s Ark
copyright © 1984 by Octavia E. Butler

cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa

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