Instruct: Given a question, retrieve passages that can help answer the question.
Query: What was Octavia E. Butler's first novel?
Butler's first work published was "Crossover" in the 1971 Clarion Workshop anthology. She also sold the short story "Childfinder" to Harlan Ellison for the anthology "The Last Dangerous Visions". "I thought I was on my way as a writer", Butler recalled in her short fiction collection "Bloodchild and Other Stories". "In fact, I had five more years of rejection slips and horrible little jobs ahead of me before I sold another word."
Starting in 1974, Butler worked on a series of novels that would later be collected as the Patternist series, which depicts the transformation of humanity into three genetic groups: the dominant Patternists, humans who have been bred with heightened telepathic powers and are bound to the Patternmaster via a psionic chain; their enemies the Clayarks, disease-mutated animal-like superhumans; and the Mutes, ordinary humans bonded to the Patternists.
The first novel, "Patternmaster" (1976), eventually became the last installment in the series' internal chronology. Set in the distant future, it tells of the coming-of-age of Teray, a young Patternist who fights for position within Patternist society and eventually for the role of Patternmaster.
Next came "Mind of My Mind" (1977), a prequel to "Patternmaster" set in the 20th century. The story follows the development of Mary, the creator of the psionic chain and the first Patternmaster to bind all Patternists, and her inevitable struggle for power with her father Doro, a parapsychological vampire who seeks to retain control over the psionic children he has bred over the centuries.
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It has also been suggested that Jeremias Gotthelf's nineteenth century novella, "The Black Spider", was heavily influenced by the Arachne story from Ovid's "Metamorphoses". In the novella, a woman is turned into a venomous spider having reneged on a deal with the devil.
Wake, also called WWW: Wake, is a 2009 novel written by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer and the first book in his "WWW Trilogy". It was first published on April 8, 2009 and was followed by "Watch" in 2010 and by "Wonder" in 2011. The novel details the spontaneous emergence of an intelligence on the World Wide Web, called Webmind, and its friendship with a blind teenager named Caitlin.
Four official novels have also been written. The first three, set within the original timeline, were published between 2003 and 2005. The first novel, "The Amulet of Power", was set after the events of "The Last Revelation", while its sequels "The Lost Cult" and "The Man of Bronze" are set after the first novel. Another novel set within the 2013 reboot timeline, "Tomb Raider: The Ten Thousand Immortals", was published in 2014 as a continuation of the original story. A fifth book, titled "Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever", also written by Dan Abnett and Nik Vincent was published in late 2016, and is a stand-alone adventure.
In 2011 Odyssey published his first middle-grade/young-adult novel, "The Wizard of Dark Street: an Oona Crate Mystery" (Egmont USA, 2011). The book was a top 20 ABC New Voices selection from the American Booksellers Association and was subsequently nominated for both an Edgar Award and an Agatha Award.
Halo: Silentium is a military science fiction novel by Greg Bear, based on the "Halo" series of video games. The book was released in March 2013 and is the twelfth "Halo" book (the eleventh novel) and the last book in the trilogy of novels focusing on the Forerunners, called "The Forerunner Saga". "Silentium" was released in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook following 2012's "Halo: The Thursday War", the second book in the separate "Kilo-Five" trilogy. "Silentium" concludes the efforts of the Ur-Didact and the Librarian to stop the Flood from destroying the universe. The book reached number eight on the New York Times Bestseller List for Hardcover Fiction.
After writing "Good Omens", Pratchett began to work with Larry Niven on a book that would become "Rainbow Mars"; Niven eventually completed the book on his own, but states in the afterword that a number of Pratchett's ideas remained in the finished version.
Halo: Cryptum is a military science fiction novel by Greg Bear, based on the "Halo" series of video games. The book was released in January 2011 and is the eighth "Halo" book (the seventh novel) and the first in the trilogy of novels focusing on the Forerunners, called "The Forerunner Saga". "Cryptum" was released in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook following 2009's "", a collection of "Halo" short stories. It is succeeded by "", published in January 2012, and "", in March 2013. Bear was given little restriction on the story of the novel; the "Halo" universe had not yet been explored in that time period.
Avatars is a trilogy of post apocalyptic fantasy novels written by Tui T. Sutherland. The trilogy contains three books, namely "So This Is How It Ends", "Shadow Falling", and "Kingdom of Twilight".The story follows a group of teens who get transported into the future where they learn that they are avatars of different pantheons who must fight to find out who will become the ultimate ruler of the gods and humans.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a fantasy novella and one of the companion tales in "The Kingkiller Chronicle" series written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It includes illustrations by Nate Taylor and was first published by DAW Books in the United States on October 28, 2014.
A sequel to the visual novel titled was released as an adult game on June 30, 2010 as a limited edition, playable on a Windows PC as a DVD. The same staff that worked on "Otoboku" returned for the sequel. The limited edition came bundled with a 96-page guide book, an original card from the Lycèe Trading Card Game, and an original pouch. A free game demo of "Futari no Elder" can be downloaded at the game's official website. The regular edition was released on July 30, 2010. Settings and characters from "Sakura no Sono no Étoile", a novel written by the scriptwriter of "Otoboku" as a sequel to Takako's story, appear in "Futari no Elder". Also, the release date of June 30 coincides in-story with the day of the election day of the 75th Elder sister. A PSP version titled "Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru Portable: Futari no Elder" was released on April 28, 2011 by Alchemist. A downloadable version of the PSP release via the PlayStation Store was released by Alchemist on December 1, 2011.
Despain is the author of the "Dark Divine" trilogy and the "Into The Dark" trilogy. Her first novel, "The Dark Divine", was published in 2009, and the second, "The Lost Saint", was published in December 2010. The Dark Divine series' main character is Grace Divine, a teenage girl who is the daughter of a pastor whose life is flipped once an old childhood friend, Daniel Kalbi, returns into her life. Despain's third and final installment to the Dark Divine series, "The Savage Grace", was released on March 13, 2012. Her next novel, The Shadow Prince, is the first installment of her new Into The Dark series, which is described as a modern-day retelling of the Persephone/Hades and Orpheus/Eurydice myths. The Eternity Key, book 2 in the Into The Dark trilogy released April 28, 2015, and book three is scheduled to release in the fall of 2016 from Carol Rhoda Labs Press.
The idea is not new. Eustathius of Thessalonica recounted an ancient fiction in which both epics were composed by an Egyptian priestess, Phantasia; Samuel Butler, in "The Authoress of the Odyssey", attributed the "Odyssey" to a Sicilian woman between 1150 and 1050 BC; and Robert Graves in his novel "Homer's Daughter" made a similar proposal.
A collection of "Halo" short stories, "Halo: Evolutions", was simultaneously released in print and audiobook formats in November 2009. "Evolutions" includes original material by Nylund, Buckell, Karen Traviss and contributions from Bungie. Tor re-released the first three "Halo" novels with new content and cover art.
Science fiction author Greg Bear wrote a trilogy of books focusing on the Forerunners, called "The Forerunner Saga". The first book, entitled "", was released in January 2011, followed by "" in January 2012 and "" on March 19, 2013. Karen Traviss wrote the "Kilo-Five" trilogy, which takes place after the events of "Halo 3" and "Halo: Ghosts of Onyx". The first book, "Halo: Glasslands", came out October 2011, followed by "Halo: The Thursday War" on October 2, 2012, and "Halo: Mortal Dictata" on January 21, 2014. The fourteenth Halo book (the thirteenth novel) was released in November 2014: "Halo: Broken Circle" by John Shirley, the author of novels based on "BioShock", "Borderlands", and other games.
The trilogy was optioned early on by the entertainment company Nelvana, which is known for its children's animation. The first volume, The Mob, was published in 2004 with The Plague following in 2005 and The Judgment in 2006. The trilogy's themes contain similarities to a lesser known novel, "The Crow Chronicles", by Indian author and birdwatcher Ranjit Lal, which was published in paperback format by Penguin Publications in 1996.
Leslie Marmon Silko's novel "Ceremony" was first published by Penguin in March 1977 to much critical acclaim.
Dr. Fanny Jane Butler (5 October 1850 – 26 October 1889) was a medical missionary from England who was among the first female doctors to travel to India and the first fully trained doctor from England to do so. Prior to her work in Kashmir and other parts of India, Butler was a part of the first class of the London School of Medicine for Women, becoming a member of the forefront of female doctors. Butler spent seven years in India until her death in 1889 and opened medical dispensaries in Srinagar and Bhagalpur, where no medical facilities had previously existed. Butler also initiated the building of the first hospital in Srinagar in 1888 called the John Bishop Memorial Hospital and provided necessary medical care for Indian women, for whom little care had been available.
Sofia Okunevska (Ukr. Софія Окуневська-Морачевська, Ger. Dr.in Sofia Okunewska-Moraczewska, 12 May 1865, Dovzhanka, Ternopil region, Austrian Empire – 24 February 1926, Lviv, Poland (today Ukraine)) was the first woman who graduated from university and became a doctor in Austria-Hungary, the first Ukrainian female doctor. Okunevska was a public activist and an important figure in feminist movement in Galicia and Austria-Hungary. She also debuted in literature - in the first women's almanac "First Wreath" she published a story about urban life "Sand. Sand! ", as well as work "Family bondage in songs and wedding ceremonies ". Last years she spent in Lviv, where she led a small medical practice. Okunevska died at the hospital for purulent appendicitis. Buried on Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv
In the third edition of "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", author and critic John Clute writes of "Inter Ice Age 4": "It is a complex story set in a near-future Japan threatened by the melting polar ice caps. The protagonist, Professor Katsumi, has been in charge of developing a computer/information system capable of predicting human behavior. Fatally for him, this system predicts his compulsive refusal to go along with his associates and his government in the creation of genetically engineered children, adapted for life in the rising seas. Most of the novel, narrated by Katsumi, deals with a philosophical confrontation between his deeply alienated refusal of the future and the computer's knowing representations of that refusal and the alternatives to it. The resulting psychodramas include a mysterious murder and the enlistment of his unborn child into the ranks of the mutated water-breathers."
Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. It was first released as a hardcover in September 1998. Almost a year later, in August 1999, its first mass market edition was published. An ebook reprint was published in 2011.
During the 1990s, Butler worked on the novels that solidified her fame as a writer: "Parable of the Sower" (1993) and "Parable of the Talents" (1998). In 1995, she became the first science-fiction writer to be awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, an award that came with a prize of $295,000.
Parable of the Sower is a science fiction novel by American writer Octavia E. Butler, the first in a two-book series. It was published in 1993.
Charlie Rose interviewed Octavia Butler in 2000 soon after the award of a MacArthur Fellowship. The highlights are probing questions that arise out of Butler's personal life narrative and her interest in becoming not only a writer, but a writer of science fiction. Rose asked, "What then is central to what you want to say about race?" Butler's response was, ""Do" I want to say something central about race? Aside from, 'Hey we're here!'?" This points to an essential claim for Butler that the world of science fiction is a world of possibilities, and although race is an innate element, it is embedded in the narrative, not forced upon it.
"Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler" (Twelfth Planet Press, August 2017; ) is a collection of works by more than 40 writers, issued in honor of the 70th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler's birth. It is Mondal's first book-length work. The anthology was co-edited by Mondal and Alexandra Pierce. It consists of memoirs written as if addressed to Butler personally, mixed with more scholarly essays. The title is derived from Butler's novel "Patternmaster".