Octavia E. Butler
Also known as Octavia Butler
American science fiction writer (1947-2006)
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Distinguished American science fiction writer (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006), recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. Further information: http://sfwa.org/members/Butler/index.html. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Octavia+E.+Butler">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,357x
- Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data
· 2019 · cited 14,835x
- Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data
· 2021 · cited 14,388x
- <i>Planck</i>
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· 2020 · cited 12,800x
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction and speculative fiction author who won several awards for her works, including Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.
Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. She was extremely shy as a child, but Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Butler attended community college during the Black Power movement in the 1960s. While participating in a local writer's workshop, she was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop which focused on science fiction. She sold her first stories soon after, and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time.
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