Octavia Butler fan's?

I just finished reading two collections of her work

Seed to Harvest which is a collection five of her works
* Patternist series
o Patternmaster (1976)
o Mind of My Mind (1977)
o Survivor (1978)
o Wild Seed (1980)
o Clay's Ark (1984)
o Seed to Harvest (compilation; 2007)
and

Lilith's Brood which contains
* Dawn (1987)
* Adulthood Rites (1988)
* Imago (1989)

My favorite of all of course is Parable of the Sower

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Permalink Reply by RobertTidwell on August 19, 2008 at 7:29pm

I freaking love the parable books. Her short story collection blood child has some great short stories in it too as well as some essays about writing and about how black people need to read sci fi.

I also really liked Kindred.

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Permalink Reply by willy l on August 21, 2008 at 11:38am

i love the begining of liliths brood. im actually a science fiction writer. check this site out.

www.blacksciencefictionsociety.com

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Permalink Reply by RobertTidwell on August 21, 2008 at 8:26pm

Oh and of course I like Fledgling also. If you haven't read it you should!

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Permalink Reply by RobertTidwell on August 21, 2008 at 10:04pm

and today i had a customer at work named Octavia Butler. :-/

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Permalink Reply by Chococat on September 11, 2008 at 12:11pm

I'm reading fledgling now and i really like it. I got turned on to that book because i love vampire novels :) I was always thinking what about black vampires though since they seem to be non existent in many of these books.

I do want to read all of her other books, but i love that she's a black women in the sci-fi genre of writing because that's mostly what i like to read. I was so happy when i found out about her.

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Permalink Reply by MissE on September 11, 2008 at 12:30pm

I just heard about her yesterday when I was watching a special on that new show True Blood. I'm going to check out Fledgling but and if I like it I might check some of these others out too.

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Permalink Reply by BC_Bat on February 16, 2010 at 3:42am

Yeah my sister turned me on the the parable books a few years back. I read sci-fi mostly and really liked them. Just wondering, which ones should I read next? I'm not much into vampire novels. Maybe I'll take a look at the Seed to Harvest books?