Links

Biographies

• Voices from the Gaps: Octavia Estelle Butler
• Biography from Black Women in America
• Little-Known Black History Fact: Octavia Butler

Interviews

• NPR “Weekend Edition” Interview
• NPR Scott Simon interviews Octavia Butler
• NPR “Talk of the Nation” The Interplay of Science and Science Fiction
• Octavia Butler, Weekend Edition Saturday, December 29, 2001
• June 2007 interview with Locus magazine
• Democracy Now: Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion
• WAMC Bookshow interview Rebroadcast: 7 March 2006
• January 2006 interview with the Indypendent
• March 2004 In Motion magazine interview
• 2004 interview on Scifidimensions.com
• 2003 interview with Octavia Butler at Writers & Books
• PBS “Ask the Experts” with Octavia Butler
• “We Keep Playing the Same Record”: A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler

Articles

• “Devil Girl From Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction by Octavia Butler
• NPR “Weekend Edition” Essay on a world without racism by Octavia Butler
• “A Few Rules for Predicting the Future” by Octavia Butler (Essence)
• “Octavia Butler’s Aha! Moment” (O Magazine)

Obituaries and Tributes

• Audio and Video Tribute to Octavia Butler
• “Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 58” by Margalit Fox, New York Times(requires login)
• “Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Dies” by Neda Ulaby, Day to Day, NPR
• “Octavia Butler, 1947-2006: Sci-fi writer a gifted pioneer in white, male domain,” by John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• “Octavia Butler, brilliant master of sci-fi, dies at 58,” by Emily Heffter, Seattle Times
• Octavia E. Butler SFWA News

Fan Site

• OctaviaButler.net