Octavia E. Butler
![Octavia E. Butler, notes on the Oankali, ca. 1985, Xenogenesis trilogy](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/695d874711-1709449269/starship-16-7-9-2a-42x-blur1.jpg)
![Octavia E. Butler, notes on the Oankali, ca. 1985, Xenogenesis trilogy](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/695d874711-1709449269/starship-16-7-9-2a-42x-blur1.jpg)
![Octavia E. Butler, outline and notes for Parable of the Sower, ca. 1989](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/c3798eb32d-1709449270/starship-16-18-10-6-kopie-42x-blur1.jpg)
![Octavia E. Butler, outline and notes for Parable of the Sower, ca. 1989](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/c3798eb32d-1709449270/starship-16-18-10-6-kopie-42x-blur1.jpg)
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![Starship 16, Octavia E. Butler, working draft of Kindred (formerly titled To Keep thee in All Thy Ways) with handwritten notes by Butler, ca. 1977](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/2216d6ba72-1709449270/starship-16-3-4-5kopie-42x-blur1.jpg)
![Starship 16, Octavia E. Butler, working draft of Kindred (formerly titled To Keep thee in All Thy Ways) with handwritten notes by Butler, ca. 1977](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/2216d6ba72-1709449270/starship-16-3-4-5kopie-42x-blur1.jpg)
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![Octavia E. Butler, notes on writing, “Tell stories filled with facts…” ca. 1970–1995.](https://www.starship-magazine.org/media/pages/magazine/starship-16/octavia-e-butler/9db6b0100c-1709449270/starship-16-6-wr-3-3kopie-42x-blur1.jpg)
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For all images of Octavia Butler: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. © Estate of Octavia E. Butler.