Works

• Xenogenesis Trilogy
  • Dawn (1987)
  • Adulthood Rites (1988)
  • Imago (1989)
• Patternist Series
  • Wild Seed (1980)
  • Mind of My Mind (1977)
  • Patternmaster (1976)
  • Clay's Ark (1984)
  • Survivor (1978)
• Kindred (1979)
• Parable of the Sower (1994)
  Nominated for the Nebula for Best Novel, 1994-95
• "Speech Sounds"
  appeared in Asimov's (December 1983).
  Won the 1984 Hugo for Best Short Story.
  Republished in Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995).
• "Bloodchild"
  appeared in Asimov's (June 1984).
  Won 1984 Nebula for best novelette, won the 1985 Hugo for best novelette.
  Republished in Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995).
• Bloodchild and Other Stories. (1995).
  Includes Preface, "Bloodchild" (1984); "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (1987 / 1988); "Near of Kin" (1979); "Speech Sounds" (1983); "Crossover" (1971); two essays: "Positive Obsession" (1989, as "Birth of a Writer"); "Furor Scribendi" (1993).

Literary Criticism

• Allison, Dorothy. "The Future of Female: Octavia Butler's Mother Lode." In Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 471-78. New York: Meridian, 1990.
• Foster, Frances S. "Octavia Butler's Black Female Future Vision." Extrapolation 23 (1982): pages 37-49.
• Friend, Beverly. "Time Travel as a Feminist Didactic in Works by Phyllis Eisenstein, Marlys Millhiser, and Octavia Butler." Extrapolation Volume 23, Number 1 (Spring 1982): pages 50-55.
• Johnson, Rebecca O. "African American Feminist Science Fiction." Sojourner v. 19, n. 6 (February 1994), pages 12-14. (includes interview with Octavia Butler)
• Levy, Michael. "Green SF and Eco Feminism." Originally published in IAFA Newsletter, Spring 1989 issues. Reprinted in Robert Collins and Robert Latham, editors, Science Fiction and Fantasy book Review Annual, 1989 Edition (Westport, CN: Meckler, 1990). "Review article of recent work by Octavia Butler, Nancy Kress, Pamela Sargent, and Sheri S. Tepper" -- ML.
• Salvaggio, Ruth. "Octavia Butler and the Black Science Fiction Heroine." Black American Literature Forum. Volume 18, Number 2 (1984): pages 78-81.
• Zaki, Hoda. "Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the Science Fiction of Octavia Butler." Science Fiction Studies Volume 17, Part 2 (1990): pages 239-251.