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Octavia Butler: Visionary Fiction (2021)

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A Positive Obsession Is Like a Compulsion That You Cannot Stop

I've been telling myself stories since I was four years old. When I was 10, I began writing them down. Octavia published her first novel, Patternmaster, in 1976 before her 30th birthday. It takes place in the distant future and involves telepaths, human mutation, and an alien pandemic.

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