Science Fiction Studies

• ALEXANDER, Phoenix. Octavia E. Butler and Black Women’s Archives at the End of the World. #138, 46:2 [July 20190]. 342-57.
• DOWDALL, Lisa. Treasured Strangers: Race, Biopolitics, and the  Human in Octavia E. Butler’s  XENOGENESIS Series. #133, 44:3 [November 2017]. 506-25.
• FERREIRA, Maria Aline. Symbiotic Bodies and Evolutionary Tropes in the Work of Octavia Butler. #112, 37:3 [November 2010]. 401-15.
• FINK, Marty M. AIDS Vampires: Reimagining Illness in Octavia  Butler’s Fledgling. #112, 37:3 [November 2010]. 416-32.
• GUERRERO, Paula Barba. Post-Apocalyptic Memory Sites: Damaged Space, Nostalgia, and Refuge in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. #143, 48:1 [March 2021]. 29-45.
• GUO, Wenwen. Semper Shame: Reading Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Fledgling. #139, 46:3 [November 2019]. 551-70.
• JENKINS, Jerry Rafiki, and Katie Sciurba. Body Knowledge, Reproductive Anxiety, and “Paying the Rent” in Octavia E. Butler’s “Bloodchild.” #146, 49:1 [March 2022]. 120-137.
• JOHNS, Adam J. Becoming Medusa: Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood and Sociobiology. #112, 37:3 [November 2010]. 382-400.
• KILGORE, De Witt Douglas & Ranu Samantrai. A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler. #112, 37:3 [November 2010]. 353-61. (Full Text)
• McDEVITT, Kelly. Childhood Sexuality as Posthuman Subjectivity in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling. #141, 47:2 [July 2020]. 219-40.
• MILLER, Jim. Post-Apocalyptic Hoping: Octavia Butler's Dystopian/Utopian Vision. #75, 25:2 [July 1998].336-60.
• PEPPERS, Cathy. Dialogic Origins and Alien Identities in Butler's XENOGENESIS. #65, 22:1 [March 1995].47-62. (Full Text)
• RIVERA, Lysa. Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction after NAFTA. #118, 39:3 [November 2012]. 415-36. (Full Text)
• ROBERTSON, Benjamin J. “Some Matching Strangeness”: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred. #112, 37:3 [November 2010]. 362-81.
• ROBINSON, Chuck. Minority and Becoming-Minor in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling.  #127, 42:3 [November 2015]. 483-99.
• SANCHEZ-TAYLOR, Joy.  Fledgling,  Symbiosis, and the Nature/Culture Divide. #133, 44:3 [November 2017]. 486-505.
• THIBODEAU, Amanda. Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" and James Tiptree, Jr.'s "With Delicate Mad Hands." #117, 39:2 [July 2012]. 262-82.
• WHITE, Eric. The Erotics of Becoming: XENOGENESIS and The Thing. #61, 20:3 [November 1993].394-408. (Full Text)
• VINT, Sherryl. Becoming Other: Animals, Kinship, and Butler's Clay's Ark. #96, 32:2 [July 2005].281-301.
• ZAKI, Hoda M. Utopia, Dystopia, and Ideology in the SF of Octavia Butler. #51, 17:2 [July 1990].239-51.

Review Pages

• ANDERSON, Reynaldo, and Charles E. Jones, eds. Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness (Lavender). #131, 44:1 [March 2017]. 164-71.
• BARR, Marleen S. & Ruth Salvaggio & Richard Law. Suzy McKee Charnas/Octavia Butler/Joan D. Vinge (Spencer). #43, 14:3 [November 1987].407-10.
• BRODERICK, Damien. Earth is But a Star: Excursions Through Science Fiction to the Far Future (Webb). #86, 29:1 [March 2002].116-18.
• BROWN, Joanne and Nancy St. Clair. Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001  (Sanders). #92, 31:1 [March 2004].138.
• BURWELL, Jennifer. Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation (Weinstone). #80, 27:1 [March 2000].151-54.
• CARRINGTON, André M. Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Lavender). #131, 44:1 [March 2017]. 164-71.
• FLANAGAN, Mary, & Austin Booth, ed. reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture (Joan Gordon). #90, 30:2 [July 2003].307-08.
• FRANCIS, Consuela, ed. Conversations with Octavia Butler (Donawerth). #112, 37:3 [November 2010]. 353-61. 491-93.
• FRECCERO, Carla. Popular Culture: An Introduction (Gregory Beatty). #83, 28:1 [March 2001]. 138-39.
• GINN, Sherry, and Michael G. Cornelius, eds. The Sex is Out of this World: Essays on the Carnal Side of Science Fiction (Pearson). #122, 41:1 [March 2014]. 191-96.
• HAMPTON, Gregory Jerome. Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and Vampires (Gremigni). #115, 38:3 [November 2011]. 542-45; & (Lavender) #131, 44:1 [March 2017]. 164-71.
• _____, and Kendra R. Parker, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler. #145, 48:3 [November 2021]. 585-587.
• HOLDEN, Rebecca J, .and Nisi Shawl, eds. Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (Canavan). #122, 41:1 [March 2014]. 222-24.
• JABLON, Madelyn. Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African-American Fiction (Latham). #76, 25:3 [November 1998].562-63.
• MAKINEN, Merja. Feminist Popular Fiction (St. Clair). #88, 29:3 [November 2002].503-06.
• OWENS, Claire Myers Spottswood. The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Women's Independence (Hollinger). #65, 20:1 [March 1995].127-29.
• PIERCE, Alexandra, and Mimi Mondal, eds. Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Calvin). #135, 42:2 [July 2018]. 387-89.
• ROBERTS, Adam. The ABC's of Science Fiction (Freedman). #85, 28:3 [November 2001].443-47
• SHINN, Thelma J. Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women (Barr). #43, 14:3 [November 1987].405-07.
• STANLEY, Tarshia, ed. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler (Phoenix Alexander). #142, 47:3 [November 2020]. 513-17.
• WESTFAHL, George Edgar Slusser, and Eric S .Rabkin, eds. Foods of the Gods: Eating and the Eaten in Fantasy and Science Fiction (Nelson). #76, 25:3 [November 1998].560-62.
• _____, eds. Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science Fiction (Samuelson). #82, 27:3 [November 2000].528-31.
• WOLFE, Cary. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Vint). #92, 31:1 [March 2004].163-67.
• WOLMARK, Jenny, Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism, and Postmodernism (Hollinger). #63, 21:2 [July 1994].232-37.

Notes and Correspondence

• SFS #78:
  • Interviews with Octavia Butler (Carol McGuirk)
• SFS 114:
  • John Wyndham and Octavia Butler (David Ketterer)
• SFS#120:
  • Octavia E. Butler Celebration (Nalo Hopkinson)
• SFS #134:
  • Research in the Octavia E. Butler Archive (Gerry Canavan)

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