I was deeply saddened early this week to learn that Octavia Butler had died. She exemplified the spirit of inquiry that makes science fiction truly the literature of ideas. Below I collect a number of resources about Octavia Butler.

Action

• Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund

Obituaries and Remembrances

• SFWA Remembrances
• Memories in the comments on Steven Barnes’ blog
• Memories in the Comments on Nalo Hopkinson’s blog

Biographies

• Wikipedia

Octavia’s Words: Interviews & Essays

• Interview, KCRW Bookworm, with Michael Silverblatt, Recorded late 2005, aired March 16, 2006.
• Interview on Democracy Now, just this past November (2005)
• Interviews & Essays @ MIT; posted by Henry Jenkins
• Interview on NPR, Sept 2001

Octavia’s Words: Fiction

• Bibliography at Feminist Science Fiction