Editing Octavia E. Butler (section)

== Works ==
A complete bibliography of Butler's work was compiled in 2008 by Calvin Ritch.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ritch |first1=Calvin |title=An Octavia E. Butler Bibliography (1976–2008) |journal=Utopian Studies |date=2008 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=485–516 |doi=10.5325/utopianstudies.19.3.0485 |jstor=20719922 |s2cid=150357898 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

=== Novels ===

''[[Patternist series|Patternist]]'' series (in chronological order):
# ''[[Wild Seed (Octavia Butler novel)|Wild Seed]]'' (Doubleday, 1980)
# ''[[Mind of My Mind]]'' (Doubleday, 1977)
# ''[[Clay's Ark]]'' (St. Martin's Press, 1984)
# ''[[Survivor (Octavia Butler novel)|Survivor]]'' (Doubleday, 1978)
# ''[[Patternmaster]]'' (Doubleday, 1976)
* [[Omnibus edition]] (excluding ''Survivor'' and ''A Necessary Being''): ''[[Seed to Harvest]]'' (Grand Central Publishing, 2007)

''Xenogenesis'', or ''[[Lilith's Brood]]'' series:
# ''Dawn'' (Warner, 1987)
# ''Adulthood Rites'' (Warner, 1988)
# ''Imago'' (Warner, 1989)
* Omnibus editions:
** ''Xenogenesis'' (Guild America Books, 1989)<ref>{{cite book | url=https://smile.amazon.com/Xenogenesis-Octavia-Butler/dp/1568650337/ | isbn=978-1-56865-033-3 | title=Xenogenesis: Dawn / Adulthood Rites / Imago | date=January 1989 | publisher=Guild America }}</ref>
** ''Lilith's Brood'' (Warner, 2000)<ref>{{cite book | url=https://smile.amazon.com/Liliths-Brood-Octavia-Butler/dp/0446676101/ | isbn=978-0-446-67610-6 | title=Lilith's Brood | date=June 2000 | publisher=Grand Central }}</ref>

''Parable'', or ''Earthseed'' series:
# ''[[Parable of the Sower (novel)|Parable of the Sower]]'' (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1993)<ref name=RollingStone/>{{efn|''Parable of the Sower'' is a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024. The [[Eaton Fire]] in January 2025 at [[Altadena, California|Altadena]] is near Octavia Butler's hometown of Pasadena.<ref name=RollingStone/>}}
# ''[[Parable of the Talents (novel)|Parable of the Talents]]'' (Seven Stories Press, 1998)

Stand-alones:
* ''[[Kindred (novel)|Kindred]]'' (Doubleday, 1979)
* ''[[Fledgling (Butler novel)|Fledgling]]'' (Seven Stories Press, 2005)

=== Short stories ===

Collections:
* ''[[Bloodchild and Other Stories]]'' (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1995; [[Seven Stories Press]], 2005), collection of 4 short stories (1 added in 2005), 3 novelettes (1 added in 2005) and 2 essays:
*: "Bloodchild" (novelette), "The evening and the morning and the night" (novelette), "Near of kin", "Speech sounds", "Crossover", "Positive obsession" (essay), "Furor scribendi" (essay), "Amnesty" (novelette, added in 2005), "The Book of Martha" (added in 2005)
* ''[[Unexpected Stories]]'' (2014), collection of 1 short story and 1 novelette:
*: "Childfinder", "A Necessary Being" (novelette)

=== Non-fiction ===

;Essays and speeches:
* "Lost Races of Science Fiction", ''Transmission'' (Summer 1980): pp.&nbsp;16–18
* "Birth of a Writer", ''[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]]'' 20 (May 1989): 74+. Reprinted as "Positive Obsession" in ''[[Bloodchild and Other Stories]]''
* "Free Libraries: Are They Becoming Extinct?", ''Omni'' 15.10 (August 1993): 4
* "Journeys", ''Journeys'' 30 (Oct 1995). Part of an edition from [[PEN/Faulkner Foundation]], a talk given by Butler at the [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction|PEN/Faulkner Awards for Fiction]] in [[Rockville, Maryland|Rockville, MD]] at Quill & Brush. Reprinted as "The Monophobic Response" (the title that Butler preferred), in ''Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora'', ed. Sheree R Thomas (New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2000), pp.&nbsp;415–416.
* [http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/articles/butler_talk_index.html "''Devil Girl from Mars'': Why I Write Science Fiction"], ''Media in Transition'' (MIT), February 19, 1998; Transcript October 4, 1998)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150219020855/http://exittheapple.com/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future/ "Brave New Worlds: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future"], ''Essence'' 31.1 (May 2000): 164+
* [https://legacy.npr.org/programs/specials/racism/010830.octaviabutleressay.html "A World without Racism": "NPR Essay - UN Racism Conference"], ''[[Weekend Edition|NPR Weekend Edition Saturday]]'' (September 1, 2001)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090814041146/http://www.oprah.com/article/omagazine/aha/rys_omag_200205_aha "Octavia Butler's Aha! Moment"], ''[[O, The Oprah Magazine]]'' 3.5 (May 2002): 79–80

=== Incomplete novels and projects ===
Several of Octavia's works were not completed:<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-08-10 |title=Now More than Ever, We Wish We Had These Lost Octavia Butler Novels |url=https://electricliterature.com/now-more-than-ever-we-wish-we-had-these-lost-octavia-butler-novels/ |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Electric Literature |language=en-US}}</ref>
* "I Should Have Said..." (memoir, 1998)
* "Paraclete" (novel, 2001)
* "Spiritus" (novel, 2001)
* "Parable of the Trickster" (novel, 1990s-2000s)

===Unpublished/not-in-print stories and novels===
* "To the Victor" (Story, 1965, under pen name Karen Adams, winning submission for a competition at Pasadena City College)
* "Loss" (Story, 1967, 5th place in national ''[[Writer's Digest]]'' short story contest)
* ''Blindsight'' (Novel: 1978, started; 1981, first draft; 1984, second draft)