![]() ![]() Gan’s mother, Lien, initially refuses to drink the egg until T’Gatoi pressures her to, chiding her for suffering needlessly and allowing old age to take her earlier than it has to, since the eggs also have a life-prolonging effect on Terrans. ![]() Gan and his family are drinking sterile Tlic eggs, which for Terrans have a narcotic, pleasant effect, while T’Gatoi sits with them and talks. The Tlic and Terrans have formed an interdependent relationship around this arrangement, and live peaceably amongst each other.Īn adolescent Terran named Gan, who is mated to a female Tlic named T’Gatoi and will soon be implanted with her eggs, is visiting his family at their home. Since the Terrans are ideal hosts, the Tlic of the Preserve have formed an arrangement with them: the Tlic offer protection and the Terrans offer one male from each family to serve as a host to Tlic eggs. The Tlic, who are large, intelligent, centipede-like beings, are parasitic and need host animals for their eggs. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library.On an unnamed alien planet, a group of humans (referred to as Terrans) live in a protected community called the Preserve, along with a segment of the ruling alien race, the Tlic. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. She also taught writer’s workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public and awards judges. She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author that she was able to pursue writing full-time. She attended community college during the Black Power movement, and while participating in a local writer’s workshop was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, which focused on science fiction. ![]() She began writing science fiction as a teenager. ![]() Extremely shy as a child, Octavia found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. After her father died, she was raised by her widowed mother. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship.īutler was born in Pasadena, California. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. Octavia Estelle Butler (J– February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. ![]()
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