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1977 / 1980 prequel/sequle
the 1977 work is described as a sequel to the 1980 work

Strictly speaking, Wild Seed (1980) is a prequel to Mind of my Mind (1977)

 * I agree that the language could be clearer. For example, calling Patternmaster the fifth in the series could also be confusing.  Naq (talk) 04:42, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Items that should be included
While surfing the web came across this quote on SciFi.com:
 * Octavia Butler: "I graduated from Pasadena City College in 1968 (Pasadena is my hometown). Then I attended CalikjnCLA. But the most valuable help I received with my writing came from two workshops. The first was the Open Door Program of the Screen Writers' Guild of America, West (1969-70). The second was Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop (1970)."
 * From the WGA, West web site, the Open Door program "was designed to mentor Latino and African-American writers".

From the web site of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of African American History and Culture:
 * Her birth name is Octavia Estelle Butler.
 * She was born in Pasadena, California.
 * In October 2000, received a lifetime achievement award in writing from PEN.
 * Won two Nebula Award for Parable Of The Talents (2000 best novel) and for Bloodchild (1984 best novelette).
 * Won two Hugo Award for Speech Sounds (1984 best short story) and for Bloodchild (1984 best novelette). --Tony Hecht 01:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

How does the "diagnosis" of dyslexia fit in with all of the early writing? At least a comment is needed to explain this apparent conflict.
 * Dyslexia relates to difficulties with reading/writing, not difficulties with having a wonderful imagination. Thus, I feel that there's no conflict.  Also, I haven't found where Butler discusses her dyslexia, so it might be hard to find sourced material to add.  Naq 01:34, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

New articles for Butler works
I've just made new articles for the Patternist series, Xenogenesis and Parable books. For the most part, I've just copied the material from this article on each series and created three new articles around it. I hope others with an interest in Octavia Butler will help expand and improve these pages. My intention, if no one objects, is to remove most of the plot summary information about these books from Butler's own page and just have it located on the subsidiary articles.

I'm also considering merging the Oankali and Ooloi pages into the Xenogenesis article--if you have a feeling about this one way or the other, please post on the Talk:Oankali page. Nareek 05:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Possible error(s)
This Wikipedia page lists her cause of death as an apparent stroke, but the linked article says that her cause of death was from a head injury due to a fall. The description on the Recent Deaths page also says head injuries. For the sake of accuracy, someone needs to find more sources that can confirm the cause of death. SailorAlphaCentauri 18:50, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Butler was on many medications for her blood and other health problems, and it is suspected that she went off the medication because it was giving her writer's block. People explain her lack of medication for her death when she fell. It was too much for her body when she hit her head. I don't have proof of this, but it's how my English professor described it. 66.66.143.123

Lesbian?
Was Octavia Butler gay? It's been in, out and now back in this article. It does have a source now, but we have to bear in mind that a passing mention in an article dated February 28, 2006 might have had Wikipedia as a source--which underscores the need for us to get it right, one way or the other. I've looked through a lot of Google links for "Octavia Butler lesbian," and I haven't found any other references to her sexuality--and a number of places where one might have thought it would have come up.

If it does stay in, it should probably be moved up--it's kind of odd where it is now. Nareek 21:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Dr. Ron Buckmire, a math professor at Occidental College, very near where Miss Butler lived until her move to Seattle, writes in his blog his reflections on her passing. He says that he knew her casually and does remark that she was a lesbian.   Mwelch 01:31, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Here's another article that says she's a lesbian, but the source may well have been here: http://www.slate.com/id/2137269/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.240.229.6 (talk • contribs)

 * Octavia Butler was a lesbian. I've known her well for 21 years both professionally and as a friend. Since her move to Seattle I've spent a lot of time with her and knew her very well. She discussed her relationship history with men quite openly with me and a few of her other friends many times and was clearly heterosexual. I'm dead certain that this neighbor made an assumption that is incorrect. LeslieH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.156.167 (talk • contribs)

 * It should go without saying, but apparently it doesn't, that not wanting to include in this article a poorly sourced claim that Octavia Butler was a lesbian has nothing whatsoever to do with not wanting Octavia Butler to be a lesbian--it has to do with making sure that the facts in WP are verifiable. Nareek 16:56, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

The "fact" that she was a lesbian was even mentioned in the LA Times obit for her. On the other hand, when I went looking for a good primary source on the internet, I couldn't find anything. There are several interviews of her that are available on the internet, and she often lists a whole series of categories that she fits in, but she never mentions being a lesbian. There is even a discussion on the MIT website that she did with Samuel Delaney where he briefly talks about being a gay man, and it would seem natural to me that if Octavia Butler was a lesbian she would have mentioned it in that discussion. Unless someone can find a credible source, it should be left out of the article. Blank Verse 06:58, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Best to not make any definitive statements about homosexuality (as several obituaries have done) nor assume that heterosexuality is a default state for anyone. Here's what Butler says in an 1988 interview with Larry McCaffery and Jim McMenamin: "Because of the way I looked, when I was growing up, I was called various and unsavory names by people who thought I was gay (though at the time nobody used that word). I eventually wondered if they might not right, so I called the Gay and Lesbian Services Center and asked if they had meetings where people could talk about such things. I wound up going down there twice, at which point I realized, Nope, this ain't it...At any rate, I was intrigued by gay sexuality, enough so that I wanted to play around with it in my imagination and in my work..."(McCaffery and McMenamin 14) [Source: Francis, Conseula, and Octavia E. Butler. Conversations with Octavia Butler. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Print.] -- Mozucat (talk) 21:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

It is my understanding from my knowledge of the science fiction field that Octavia Butler was somewhere between heterosexual and asexual. I have never heard anything to substantiate the notion she might be a lesbian. Kathryn Cramer Pleasantville 23:27, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Somehow, the LGBT & lesbian categories have gotten applied to the article (June 2007), even though it's not documented in the article (and as evidenced by the discussion here, highly questionable). I've taken them off; this should be discussed before re-applying them. --lquilter 18:51, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Changed the word "intended" to "internal"
I made a slight change in the biblio section about the Patternist series; I'm not aware of any evidence that Ms. Butler intended to publish the books in any other order than they actually were. The mere fact that internal action differs from the publication order does not mean that her wishes were not followed, which using the word "intended" implies.

Changed Headings
FYI, on reading the article it seemd to me that Novels and Other Fiction should really be treated as subheadings of Bibliography (they were all orginally at the same heading level). I assume no one will have any trouble with me making them subheadings, but if they do please let me know. I don't want to step on any toes. --KNHaw 23:26, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

On an African/African-American approach to sci-fi/fantasy
It has struck me for decades that Butler's approach to writing in the "sci-fi" genre was distinctly African/African-American. The tradition is very African, fundamentally. It has to do with psychic, intrinsic, spiritual, supernatural powers -- metaphysics -- rather than the external, the technological, mechanical and material/physical (dream hardware/cyberware) which is more the approach taken by European/neo-European (read white) writers (spaceships, etc.) I've seen this among other writers, in their approach to the fantastic, as well:  Toni Cade Bambara in The Salt Eaters; Gloria Naylor in Mama Day; Walter Flowers' De Mojo Blues; Toni Morrison's initial (IMO incredibly weak - I can't believe I'm criticizing a Pulitzer Prize/Nobel Award winner, but, hey, I am; "lickety split, lickety split": what the hell?) foray into the genre, Tar Baby and, later, the more successful/adept Beloved; Walter Mosley's Blue Light; Jewell Parker Rhodes' Voodoo Dreams a novel on the life of Marie Laveaux; and most particularly possibly in the work of Sophia Stewart (the African-American woman who has laid claim to the story/concept, a short story called "The Third Eye," behind The Matrix trilogy).  I wasn't at all surprised, frankly, when she stepped forward. When I saw the first film, I was struck by how African in perspective it was. I remember, in fact, saying out loud that the Oracle had better be black, or the movie was bull****. I wasn't disappointed. :p I haven't followed the story behind Stewart's legal battles at all and just took a break from writing this to do some quick research. The case seemingly has been dropped. So, who the heck knows. The Wachowski brothers seem pretty sleazy from what I've read of them -- but that doesn't mean they aren't creative.

I don't know if any literary critic of note has done an analysis of the African/African-American approach to fantasy writing, but Octavia Butler is at once part of a solid tradition among her fellow African American authors and singular among them. Deeceevoice 19:09, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Octavia Butler vs. Octavia E. Butler
Just want to note for the record that "Octavia Butler" gets more than twice as many Google hits as "Octavia E. Butler". Seems like something that could have been discussed first. Nareek 18:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps people doing Google searches tend to minimise and abbreviate search terms. Language used in Google searches is unlikely to be a good basis for factual presentation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.43.98 (talk) 09:30, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Slight re-organization
I have slightly re-organized. Amongst the changes, I have removed the obituary links. It would fine to cite an obituary or two where the facts of her passing are recounted, and of course obituary's are rich sources for citing to for the many facts of her life.

To preserve the data for easy access, should someone want to read through them to find more important facts to include, here are the obituary links:

 * Obituary: Octavia E. Butler, 58, science fiction writer - International Herald Tribune
 * ''Technology News: Octavia Butler - Metroactive news
 * Octavia Butler, 1947-2006: Sci-fi writer a gifted pioneer in white, male domain - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 * Octavia Butler, brilliant master of sci-fi, dies at 58 - Seattle Times
 * Octavia Butler: Black science fiction writer breaking barriers in America - Guardian Unlimited
 * Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Dies - NPR
 * Octavia Butler, A Lonely, Bright Star Of the Sci-Fi Universe - Washington Post
 * Octavia Butler: The outsider who changed science fiction - Slate
 * Octavia Butler, 58; penned own path in science-fiction - Boston Globe
 * Science fiction writer Octavia Butler dies - USA Today
 * ''Oh Octavia - Annalee Newitz, AlterNet

Cka3n 07:59, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

baptist category?
Octavia described herself in the quote included in the article as a former Baptist. The Category:Baptists self-describes as "Baptists are Christian people who believe and follow Baptist theology. Most belong to various Baptist denominations." To my understanding, this does not accurately describe Octavia Butler. I'm going to remove the category unless some discussion persuades me otherwise (and is properly documented in the article). (added) --lquilter 18:47, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

broken link
The following link is broken: * A Few Rules For Predicting The Future - science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler - Essence (magazine) Fholson 11:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed both article links, made sources external links. Thanks for the heads-up.  Naq (talk) 18:59, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Influenced By...
The source for Samuel R. Delany as an influence seems weak. Did Butler herself ever claim this? In "Racism in Science Fiction" Delany says:
 * "Now Butler is a gracious, intelligent, and wonderfully impressive writer. But if she were a jot less great-hearted than she is, she might very well wonder: “Why, when you invite me, do you always invite that guy, Delany?”

 * The fact is, while it is always a personal pleasure to appear with her, Butler and I are very different writers, interested in very different things. And because I am the one who benefits by this highly artificial generalization of the literary interest in Butler’s work into this in-many-ways-artificial interest in African-American science fiction...

 * With all the attention that has come on her in the last years, Butler has been careful (and accurate) in not claiming that I am any sort of influence on her. I have never written specifically about her work. Nor, as far as I know, has she ever mentioned me in print."

Delany appears to outright deny influencing Butler, and the citation for his influence in the article appears to be merely that he taught her Clarion workshop and helped her with her writing. Not the same thing as being one of her major literary influences!

Is the reason for his listing merely that they so often appeared together, which he appears to attribute to the subtle racism of lumping all the African-American SF writers together?

Their respective styles don't seem all that alike to me. I'm wondering if there is any better citation for his influence or if it should be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.246.5 (talk) 19:02, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

 * The article as it is doesn't cite an influence, but does imply it given the location of the mention of Delany. I'm fine with taking out that mention, especially since it is not within the citation that it would appear to be in according to the article. Dkreisst (talk) 19:15, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

best-known?
Butler was one of the best-known women in the field

In what respect? This is a subjective assessment, without reference or justification. Of the 53 women in the field's authoritative guide to awards, Butler is 23rd in total wins and nominations. One-sixth the tally of Le Guin, the field's most-honored woman. Respectable, but not enough to warrant the lead paragraph's description. (There are other measures of notability than awards, but others are either not objective or hard to verify.)

Enoent (talk) 23:39, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Her writing has influenced a number of prominent authors
Why are not these authors listed, so that we can know who they are? 74.229.102.208 (talk) 00:33, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Because assertions like that must be sourced. If Joan Notablewriter said in an interview in Janus or Trap Door that Butler influenced her writing, then it could go in the article; otherwise, not. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  21:40, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Biography errors
While reading the Kindred wikipedia page on suggestion I can give to the writer is to fix certains facts about the book use capilizations, revise for grammar and punctuation and fix the run-on sentences.Watoflifej23 (talk) 14:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It would probably be more useful to make that suggestion on the talk page of that article. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  01:00, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

"While reading the Kindred wikipedia page on suggestion I can give to the writer is to fix certains facts about the book use capilizations, revise for grammar and punctuation..."
 * Oh, the irony. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.164.43.98 (talk) 09:26, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Pictures, detail, and praise
Jaflemin (talk) 19:42, 19 October 2014 (UTC)It could be beneficial for this wikipedia page to contain more pictures of Octavia throughout her life. Providing some visual examples of Butler’s success, such as receiving an award, would increase the readers awareness of just how successful Butler was in the field of science fiction writing. When people see imagery on a wikipedia page, it tends to stick in their head longer than just reading facts about someone. Another contribution that would benefit this page is a subcategory describing in depth what Butler’s personality was like. Laying the foundation for who a person was helps the readers connect more with the other information they are learning about the person. So far, only a few lines describe how “shy” Butler was. I want to know what inspired her to write such world renown works, not just that she was more introverted. Lastly, I would love to see a subcategory explaining and praising the impact Butler has had as a woman and both a person of color in the science fiction world. Butler is a female of color, thriving in a field mostly dominated by white males. This is both inspiring and rare; and I would like to know more information on how this might have impacted her personally as well as how it impacted the lives of others. Incorporating a few lines where people of importance pay tribute to Butler would help the readers of this page realize her significance. The more detailed page an author has, the more serious the readers of the page will take them.

 * I will get on it, Jaflemin (talk). I will begin by (slowly) cleaning up the External Links and moving from there. :-) --DrX (talk) 20:21, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvements to entry from Fall 2015 ENG103 class at LaGuardia
[Note: These sections have been started for students; these will be organized afterward.--Mozucat (talk) 19:55, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 1
She was influenced by her family ( Mother and Grandmother) when it came down to the hardships of being a black woman of thed times. Stories that included heavily on her works referencing her mother are Wild Seed.

Her mother’s maiden name is Octavia Margaret Guy (Gant-Britton), she worked as a maid and when she finished working, she used to bring home books from the trash of her work. (Positive Obsession)

She graduated John Muir High School before she attended college (Gant-Britton)

Since when she was three she learned that she was more interested in knowing others and discovering who they are and why they are.(The oprah magazine) Might be relevant to mention her first award in a high school writing competition at age 18 (Gant-Britton)

What about all the odd jobs she worked while struggling as a writer? Factory, clerical, warehouse work. She called them “terrible little jobs” (Gant-Britton).

She received many rejection slips before she first published, which was in 1971, an important fact to mention (“Crossover,” a short story). (Gant-Britton)

She was reflectant on how things could have been different in her life. In Rowell’s interview with Butler she said that she wondered on how her life would have been different if her mother had continued her education, and not get pulled out of school  at a young age. She was as reflectant on is she would have been different if any of her siblings had survived. In writing Kindred she developed the general idea for it from a young black man from the Black Power Movement saying “ I’d kill all these old people who have been holding us back for so long. But I can’t because I’d have to start with my own parents.” Holding on to this comment for thirty years she implied sexism by for “rules of submission” would et men killed off in her stories and the women alive.

At the age of 23 she sold her first 2 short stories to writer-editors who were teaching at Clarion. (Positive Obsession)

She won a Locus award. (Pfeiffer)

References 1-11 issues

part about racial and sexual ambiguity needs a citation. (between 8 & 9)

Reference #2’s link doesn’t even work. Here’s the actual link: http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/octavia-butler-science-fiction-writer

Reference #5 is someones essay which is not a very good source to use.

Our references: (1,,8,9) https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v020/20.1butler.html - Mazuyuki Eizoku

(2, 3, 5, 6, 7) Gant-Britton, Lisbeth. "Butler, Octavia (1947– )." African American Writers. Ed. Valerie Smith. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. 95-110. Gale Virtual Literature Collection. -Lagccstudent

(4) Butler, Octavia E. "Octavia Butler's Aha! Moment." O, The Oprah Magazine. May 2002. Oprah.com. Web. 03 Mar. 2015. -Divergentforever

(11) Pfeiffer, John R. "Butler, Octavia Estelle (b. 1947)." Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Ed. Richard Bleiler. 2nd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 147-158. Gale Virtual Literature Collection. -Princessmishell

(10) Butler, Octavia E. "Positive Obsession." Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York : Seven Stories, 2005. 123-136.-andyyecua

--Lagccstudent (talk) 20:07, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Princessmishell (talk) 20:08, 13 March 2015 (UTC) Mazuyuki Eizoku (talk) 20:10, 13 March 2015 (UTC) Divergentforever (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Andyyecua (talk) 20:24, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 2
1) Mother’s Influence on her early life should be added. - P.O.

2) Her social struggles help facilitate her radical themes in her literature. - Robert W. Logan

3) The way she self identified was not proper described. - John Pfeiffer

4) Mr Pfaff encouragement helped boost her confidence at a vulnerable age. - P.O.

5) Didn’t include the fact that she actually gave back to those who helped her become the person she was. - John Pfeiffer.

6) Held a different point of view from most of society. - The Oprah Magazine

References - Link Modify (Correct Links)

(2) - http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/octavia-butler-science-fiction-writer

(4) - http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/butlerOctavia.php

--Santuros (talk) 19:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC) --Mona's mistake (talk) 19:59, 13 March 2015 (UTC) --ElzeyBurg (talk) 20:01, 13 March 2015 (UTC) --Houston Jay (talk) 20:01, 13 March 2015 (UTC) --X Rush (talk) 20:02, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Sportsfan00 (talk) 20:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 3
Estebanvrgs09, Purplelover0516, NeverFall_MVR, Dr.Droog Group 3 Octavia Butler

1. Butler’s aunt didn't believe that she would be able to become a writer because of her social status and gender, not to mention race. (PO)

2. Butler mother had four boys that died before Octavia was born.(PO)

3. Butler’s mother was pulled out of school and put to work at a plantation when she was young to support her family because she was the oldest daughter, while her oldest brother, got to attend school.( Rowell pg 50)

4. Butler appreciated the struggles her Grandmother and mother went through in order to support her. She used that as inspiration and motivation to fuel her passion for writing. (Rowell pg51)

5. Kindred (1979) is based on an experience she had with a young black classmate who did not share her appreciation for the generational struggle his people had been through when he stated to her, “I’d like to kill all these old people who have been holding us back for so long. But I can't because I’d have to start with my own parents”. (Rowell pg 51)

References:

(1) Has to be removed: Website cited (Beacon Press) is a publisher & offers scarce information on author apart from book prices (2) http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/octavia-butler-science-fiction-writer

(3) Has to be removed because the link sends user to a teacher’s syllabus (4) Need to be changed to this link for a more specific website http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/butlerOctavia.php

(7)Needs to be changed to this link to a more speicifc website http://www.salon.com/2006/03/17/butler_3/

(11) Website Title: Issuu Article Title: Locus #543 (April 2006) Date Accessed: March 13, 2015 http://issuu.com/locus/docs/locus__543__april_2006_   P. 7

NeverFall MVR (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC) 146.111.144.130 (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC) Dr.Droog (talk) 20:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC) --NajahLovesPink (talk) 20:16, 13 March 2015 (UTC) Estebanvrgs09 (talk) 20:19, 13 March 2015 (UTC),Purple lover0516 (talk) 20:21, 13 March 2015 (UTC), Sportsfan00 (talk) 20:23, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 4
OwenZeph: In Life and Education the fact that her mother gave her books to read all the time was not included and that the genre for these book were mostly fantasy which gave her an interest in science fiction.(John Pfeiffer) Also even though she is very shy she was also bullied which made her want to stay to herself and write.(P.O.) The first couple of times that she had submitted short stories they had all been rejected. When she was a freshmen in college she won first prize in a school wide short story contest that was meant for older and more experienced writers(P.O.) It was mentioned that she was in the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop but what they didn’t mention was that, that is where she sold her first two Short Stories at the age of twenty-three but only one got published, after that she hadn’t sold another piece of work for 5 years. (P.O.) Her works have received many major writing and achievement awards in and out of the science fiction field. (John Pfeiffer) She received an Associates of Arts degree at Pasadena City College, but then later denies that she received a degree. (John Pfeiffer)

Japanize_myself: →In life and education section, we should change that Octavia was seven years old when her father died from excessive food and drink (Gant-Britton). →Octavia mother was born and raised in Louisiana along with strict racial segregation (Positive Obsession). →Octavia’s mother worked as a “maid” should be switched to “domestic worker” because it sounds much better. →In the second paragraph of the same section we should include that Octavia began “pecking out stories two-fingered” on an old-fashioned typewriter that her mother had purchased (Gant-Britton) when young Octavia wanted to escape from boredom. →In the third paragraph, “After getting an associate’s degree from Pasadena City College…” we should add that it was a degree in History (Gant-Britton). →In the paragraph where mentions that Octavia moved to Washington, the fact that she moved to another state after her mother passed away (Gant-Britton). →We should include Octavia’s minor discouragement from her aunt when she was told that “negroes can’t be writers” (Positive Obsession).

Apache50 -at her age 58 she was suffering from hypertension and from other health problems for years before her death.(logan) -there should be some information on what changed her perspective towards how she looked at life ( butler)

NajahLovesPink : Life and education : -Butler would of had four other siblings but unfortunately her mother had three miscarriages and one of the four siblings died at birth. This could of been very problematic and traumatic for someone growing up in a time of racism,segregation and poverty. This could have taken a toll on her self esteem. (Pfeiffer) -Octavia’s ambition really began at a young age, the public library in her hometown was her   second home at the age of six. (P.O) Accomplishments: Butler worked at various blue- collar jobs and got up early hours to practice her craft. Her first novel was published in 1976 published by doubleday, Patternmaster. (Logan) She had 5 successful Patternmaster series novels published merely back to back: Patternmaster (1976), Mind of My Mind(1977), Survivor (1978), Wild Seed (1980), Clay’s Ark (1984) (Robert W. Logan)

Beautiful Soul22:--Beautiful Soul22 (talk) 20:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC) She was 58 years old when she died. It was a Friday, February 24,2006 at her home in Lake Forest, Washington. She slipped and hit her head on the cobbled walkway outside her Seattle home. She was also suffering from hypertension and there were also other forms of health problems.

Pfeiffer, John R. "Butler, Octavia Estelle (b. 1947)." Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Ed. Richard Bleiler. 2nd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 147-158. Gale Virtual Literature Collection. (read pp. 147-148). Butler, Octavia E. "Positive Obsession." Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York : Seven Stories, 2005. 123-136 Gant-Britton, Lisbeth. "Butler, Octavia (1947– )." African American Writers. Ed. Valerie Smith. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. 95-110. Gale Virtual Literature Collection. (read pp. 97-99) "Neda Ulaby, Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Dies". National Public Radio. February 27, 2006. Logan, Robert W. "Butler, Octavia E." Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2005. Oxford Reference. 2005. http:/www.oprah.com/spirit/Octavia-Butlers-Aha-Monent#ixzz3QVO6UFyf from the may 2002 issue of  O, The Oprah Magazine

--Apache50 (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC),--Beautiful Soul22 (talk) 20:11, 13 March 2015 (UTC), OwenZeph (talk) 20:12, 13 March 2015 (UTC), --Japanize myself (talk) 20:14, 13 March 2015 (UTC)20:17, 13 March 2015 (UTC)NajahLovesPink (talk)

Team 5
After reading the actual Wikipedia article on Octavia Butler’s life and the articles assigned for homework, it shows that the Wikipedia article displayed very little of her life. In this article they failed to mention her life throughout her twenties, the lack of encouragement she received wanting to pursue a writing career being a black women, the fact she lived in segregation not just a “ racially mixed neighborhood, and the reason for her insecurities. After receiving multiple rejection letters, and having her writing negatively judged, at the age of twenty-three she sold her first two short stories in which only one of those short stories was published. Five years later, she then sold her first novel and since then, she’s managed to sell eight novels. In the Wikipedia article, the phrase “She remained throughout her career, a self-identified science fiction fan, an insider who rose from within the ranks of the field” describes very little of her life and the events that took place. From this statement it doesn't tell us how she became a fan and the fact she found a copy of “The Writers”,a magazine that she had never heard of and that made her interested in going to the library to learn more from the writers. In the Logan article it mentions that her books were all linked by story lines. It states, “ Among major themes they cover are racial and gender-based animosity, the ethical implications of biological engineering, the question of what it means to be human, the unethical uses of power, and how the assumption of power changes people.” Oppose to the wiki article only stating that her books were only about “racial and sexual ambiguity.” There were many elements of her life that were neglected and ignored.

Team 3
NajahLovesPink

Octavia Estelle Butler, She also focused on themes such as power, power fantasy, love, longevity/ immortality, apocalypse, hubris, addiction, genetics, social engineer, myth, pain and ecology. She was widely ranged in science fiction and not limited to Afrofuturism.(John)--NajahLovesPink (talk) 20:17, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Houston Jay

Butlers work has had some feminism style of fiction with novels such as Alien to Femininity:Speculative Fiction and feminist Theory. Thus, Butler's exploration of the themes of isolation and power struggles in futuristic settings, often with black protagonists, allows her work to fall under this critical category.--Houston Jay (talk) 20:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Beautiful Soul22

According to De Witt and Samantrai, “Memorial To Octavia E. Butler”, she was measured by conferred after her death. She significance the ability to indicates that she was becoming more essential. --Beautiful Soul22 (talk) 20:14, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 1
In the THEMES OF SOCIAL CRITICISM, we need to correct Octavia of being Afrofuturistic to really not much of being one because she includes many characters of different races. Include the fact that she was a feminist science fiction author. Add that fact that she was also interest in themes with the human development and the interaction on a sociocultural plane. “...the Science Fiction Research Association, the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the Modern Language Association show continued interest in evaluating the content and influence of her work. This activity indicates that she became an essential part to science fiction.” Butler’s tales “are not simple future-history scenarios extrapolating utopian solutions to contemporary troubles. Her narratives can be grim and are often tragic.” We need to include that she was the first to imagine a future with minority groups and giving the protagonist role to strong females. The topics of her stories were not only to draw parallels with a black experience, rather to be transgressive, colorblind and applicable to all human or non human beings. Include the fact that she hated to be pigeonholed as a genre writer. While themes such as slavery and race were highly important, by only mentioning these we are neglecting and ignoring the humongous range of themes that her stories include, for example future of humanity in general, incest, genetic modification and all the moral imperative that they represent. The word ancient in the first line of the paragraph about social themes is odd, the themes that Octavia Butler writes about are mostly contemporary. Rather than explain her work as “hyperbolic reach of speculative fiction”, we can explain that her work is mostly influenced by personal experiences, subjective to the author mixed with fiction. Since the paragraph is about social criticism is highly important to remark that by the time she started writing, she was the only female African American science fiction author, and inside the genre she was one of the fewest. This is important because this experiences shaped the way she wrote her stories.

--Japanize myself (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

--ElzeyBurg (talk) 20:18, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Unconsciouseclecticism (talk) 20:22, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 4
Octavia Estelle Butler is an award winning novelist, essayist and short story writer who have challenged the gender roles, women and people of color in the future. She won the hugo Nebula and Locus awards and 295,000 MacArthur fellowship. Instead of categorizing Butler’s genre as afro-futuristic, she has portrayed a multicultural setting including characters from different color and race. She was a feminist and It heavily influenced her protagonist Many of her characters had complex and personalities that were nurturer, healers, conciliator and black womenshe focused on ethnic and sexual prejudices She did not experience segregation throughout her life. She never went to a segregated school nor lived in a segregated neighborhood; hence the unimportance of a segregated sci-fi setting when putting her characters together. “Butler’s body of work spans multiple genres of science, speculative, and feminist fiction and examines host of interrelating themes She addresses science fiction’s concern with the implications of technology.” “Butler herself said that she was responsible for three audiences: there called the science fiction audience, Black audience and the Feminism Audience”- Potts 72 Butler aims to attract an adult audience talking deliberately about sex, dominance and submission, the master and the slave. rape is a constant danger in the nicest relationships among the characters.

Mazuyuki Eizoku (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC) Mona's mistake (talk) 20:05, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 2
She did not only use afrofuturistic communities, she was also interested in mixed communities in her stories.

She introduced female characters of color to the main role in science fiction writing.

She is one of the few authors who reached a significant non-genre audience.

She was responsible for the science fiction, black, and feminist audience.

She mostly wrote about tragedies and even though her work seemed hopefully for human prospect she was never sentimental,a lot of her work centers on her bleak yet hopeful vision of humanity’s future. In the design of her characters she used a sociobiological background for them, they stemmed from mutation or encounters with other kinds of beings.

Butler makes readers reevaluate long-standing attitudes with her “implied treatment of sexual and racial prejudice and the direct treatment of social power structures”

“Butler’s fiction reflects and refracts the attempts- and failures-of the twentieth century to deal with ethnic and sexual prejudice”(Butler, American ethnic Writers” She normally creates images of horror so that the reader cannot see the individual that is being described as human.

“Her stories are told from the the first or third person perspective of someone who is passive or disfranchised” (Logan,Robert) Much of her work stems from her study of physical science and studies of human behavior, through her work she expresses the idea that humanity has to learn to adapt and coexist with microorganisms.

She was one of the few science fiction writers who didn’t write about heros, her protagonists did not need to save other only themselves.

Work Cited

Gant-Britton, Lisbeth. "Butler, Octavia (1947– )." African American Writers. Ed. Valerie Smith. 2nd ed. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. 95-110. Gale Virtual Literature Collection.

Kilgore, De Witt Douglas and Ranu Samantrai. "A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler."Science Fiction Studies 37.3 (November 2010): 353-361

Pfeiffer, John R. "Butler, Octavia Estelle (b. 1947)." Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Ed. Richard Bleiler. 2nd ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 147-158. Gale Virtual Literature Collection.

Logan, Robert W. "Butler, Octavia E." Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. Ed. Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2005. Oxford Reference. 2005

"Butler, Octavia E." American Ethnic Writers, Revised ed. Vol. 1. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2009. 168-175. Gale Virtual Literature Collection.

OwenZeph (talk) 20:00, 20 March 2015 (UTC) Divergentforever (talk) 20:01, 20 March 2015 (UTC) LajEvelyn (talk) 20:02, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Team 5
Themes of Social Criticism Revision Team 5: Dr.Droog, james.johnson21, andyyecua

“I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just happens to be science fiction.” (Octavia Butler: 1997 interview with Joan Fry)

1.Neo-Slave Narrative/ Master Slave Dialectics/ Colonization and Imperialism The psychological and societal consequences for both oppressor and oppressed (dominant and submissive), and challenge racial hierarchy. “...a historically enfranchised class has controlled the bodies and destinies of peoples considered inferior.” (Kilgore, Samantrai “Memorial to Octavia Butler” p.355) “Butler’s portrayal of the loner of science and adventure fiction is giving depth and complexity by the implied treatment of sexual and racial prejudices and the direct treatment of social power structures”. (John Pfeiffer “Octavia Estelle Butler”)

2.Utopianism “Where is there a society in which men and women are honestly considered equal? What would it be like to live in such a society? Where do people not despise each other because of race or religion, class or ethnic origin?” (Octavia Butler: 1979 interview with Veronica Mixon) Challenges the idea of Utopianism

3.”Cyborg- Feminism”/ Feminism - Challenges focus on white male protagonist and of familiar gender hierarchy. “Readers for whom science fiction is an adventure in which the white, male hero saves humanity (most often in the form of a scantily clad woman) will find in Butler’s work a challenge to generic conventions” (Kilgore, Samantrai “Memorial to Octavia Butler” p.355) Gave birth to female protagonists inside science fiction stories

4.Genetic/Biological Engineering (Sociobiology); Contact; Miscegenation and Contamination (“Catastrophe of sex”) Forced evolution Rape “If humanity as a whole is subject to the fear of bodily violation and exploitation, In butlers futures is the black woman who have the longest familiarity with it. Such unfortunate experts know the best strategies for survival.” (Kilgore, Samantrai “Memorial to Octavia Butler” p.355) “The trope of a radically, sometimes violently, remade homo sapiens, altered either due to its own mutations or as a consequence of its encounters with other kinds of beings…” (Kilgore, Samantrai “Memorial to Octavia Butler” p.355) Potential and danger of medicine In the Xenogenesis trilogy (Patternmaster series), cancer becomes a genetic tool with the potential to mutate certain a number of humans

6.Apocalyptic Future “...an increasingly posthuman society.” (Lisbeth Gant-Britton p.97) “She does not envision a liberal-pluralist federation in which heterogeneity of the whole shields homogeneity of the parts. Nor is the result the mixed blessed community” “ A relentlessly brutal and almost hopeless future, based on extrapolation of the most alarming and destructive trends visible in contemporary society” (John Pfeiffer “Octavia Estelle Butler” p.148)

7. Ethics/ Morality/ Humanity Butler’s fiction reflects and refracts the attempts and failures of the twentieth century to deal with ethnic and sexual prejudice. (Pfeiffer “Octavia Butler” p.148)

8. Violence

9. Point of view characters

10. Agency vs. Destiny Dr.Droog (talk) 20:11, 20 March 2015 (UTC) James.johnson21 (talk) 20:12, 20 March 2015 (UTC)Andyyecua (talk) 20:14, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Contribution of Society
Octavia Butler’s work has won numerous awards, including the Locus, Nebula and Hugo awards, and a $295,000 MacArthur Fellowship. Even though she never wanted to teach, she was offered throughout her lifetime, multiple writer-in-residence from separate colleges. Regardless she made multiple guest appearances at the University of Illinois in order to give back to the apprenticeship that she was offered as a youth. Her work has been subject to eighteen doctoral dissertations and different articles in scholarly books as well as prestigious journals. And through interviews and conferences, was able to share about her life and was known as well as a person as she was through her writing. -John Pfeiffer

Contribution of Literature
Prominent themes in Butler’s work: Sociobiology - Butler uses scientific topics such as evolutionary biology and genetic engineering and mutation to discuss social and cultural issues such as gender and race. (Kilgore and Samantrai)

Contribution to Science Fiction: Unconventional ideas in Sci Fi - while most science fiction features white male protagonists, Butler chooses to both non-white and female leads in her novels. (Kilgore and Samantrai) Crossing of social and biological boundaries - Butler features communities that are not singular and homogeneous but contain a variety of races and species. She also bridges gaps between groups that seem biologically unrelated. She may be symbolically challenging the way people understand racial constructs and conflict. (Kilgore and Samantrai)

Butler’s audiences: She is one of the only authors who reach multiple audiences: black, science-fiction, and feminist audiences. First prominent Sci Fi writer to publish in the African American women’s magazine Essence. (Kilgore and Samantrai)

Contribution to Speculative Fiction
Octavia Butler’s novels usually deals with futuristic ideas that lead to frightening danger of science and medicine and how they contribute to the downfall of society. Although Butler gets into medicine and the effect of science, she also makes sure she focuses more on the character developments. Making sure that her characters act like actual human beings. In some of her work Butler focuses on her characters dealing with the failed of technology and politics on individuals,families, and communities in the U.S. Butler also explores other ideological responses to those potential crisis. Due to the fact that Butler doesn't just focus on science fiction, it is best to categorize her work as speculative fiction, because her works deals with science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary non realistic fiction, or in other words known as fabulation. Butler focuses her writing on the fantasy and futuristic aspects and the darker, yet also more down to earth feel. Butler’s work usually consist of the factors that technology plays, making some points beneficial and other destructive. For instance she gets into the human relations to disease, genetics, and medicine and how these features may impact the advancement on the evolution of the human race. - Octavia Butler,Lisbeth Gant -Britton

--Santuros (talk) 20:04, 20 March 2015 (UTC) --Lagccstudent (talk) 20:05, 20 March 2015 (UTC) --X Rush (talk) 20:06, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Links needed for the text of the article
Here are the links I moved from external links that other teams may use in their other sections later.

Mazuyuki Eizoku (talk) 18:37, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Bibliography from Feminist Sci Fi Utopia
 * Octavia Butler Collection at The Huntington Library; includes manuscripts, correspondence, school papers, notebooks, photographs, and other materials
 * "Devil Girl From Mars": Why I Write Science Fiction, MIT Media in Transition Project, October 4, 1998
 * Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, administered by the Carl Brandon Society

Remove "Interviews" section?
Not the list of interviews, which can later be moved to a page on Butler's works, but the section on Butler being interviewed by Charlie Rose and later by Randall Kenan. In the first passage, the inference made does not follow from the quote, and the second passage merely repeats information better explained in the article for Butler's Kindred.--DrX (talk) 12:49, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

The interview section is still here, and I agree it's not necessary—a lot of it is useful information, sure, but it seems like the quotes and analysis could fairly easily be integrated into their relevant sections. That last interview with Joshunda Sanders, for example, could even be moved entirely out of this page to the page on Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy; some of the Kenan interview info could be moved to the Kindred page; some of the quotes from and analysis of the Charlie Rose interview could go to the "point of view" section; and so on. Additionally, most pages here on writers don't have an "interviews" section, I think; it defeats the purpose of using useful information from interviews to add to the sections they're most relevant to, so that a reader can find what the information they're looking for more easily. Jaizuss (talk) 18:09, 29 May 2017 (UTC)jaizuss

 * OK, here is the section. Will start work on apportioning the information. --DrX (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Interviews Charlie Rose interviewed Octavia Butler in 2000 soon after she was awarded 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.

In an interview by Randall Kenan, Butler discusses how her life experiences as a child shaped most of her thinking. As a writer, she was able to use her writing as a vehicle to critique history under the lenses of feminism. In the interview, she discusses the research that had to be done in order to write her bestselling novel, Kindred. Most of it is based on visiting libraries as well as historic landmarks with respect to what she is investigating. Butler admits that she writes science fiction because she does not want her work to be labeled or used as a marketing tool. She wants the readers to be genuinely interested in her work and the story she provides, but at the same time she fears that people will not read her work because of the "science fiction" label that they have.

In an interview with Joshunda Sanders, Butler commented on the space race and its influence on her work. She noted, "I think of the space race as a way of having a nuclear war without having one." She claimed that Ronald Reagan believed a nuclear war against the Soviet Union was winnable. Butler admitted to being very confused by this idea, and said that it contributed to her idea for the Xenogenesis books. She said "there must be something basic, something really genetically wrong with us if we're falling for this stuff." Butler then commented on how she felt a real fear about nuclear war during the Cold War and that these ideas had a real influence on some of her early works.

In an interview with Marilyn Mehaffy and AnaLouise Keating, for MELUS, Octavia Butler talked about how biology is used to keep groups of people out of power. She said, "[w]hat's made of biology is that the people who are in power are going to figure out why this is a good reason for them to stay in power. Look at the tests that show that women have better linguistic abilities: Yet, how many of our ambassadors are women? How many of the politicians are women? This is not looked at; instead, the argument goes that women don't have the mathematical abilities ... every now and then. So we're much more likely now to be penalized for whatever we're assumed not to have. We're much more likely to find that whatever little genetic thing that's discovered is going to be used against us." The issue of biology defining women and what they can and can't do has long been a part of feminism.

Education
Did she ever finish the bachelor's degree at UCLA? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.112.128.15 (talk) 00:46, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I do not believe so--the biographical sources would indicate something that importantDrX (talk) 03:29, 12 March 2016 (UTC).

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Stephen Hopkins (merchant)

Stephen Hopkins (by about 1579 – between 6 June and 17 July 1644) was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636. He worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the colony and to assist with the colony's ventures. He was the only Mayflower passenger with prior New World experience, having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610. Hopkins left Jamestown in 1614 and returned to England.

English origins
Hopkins was baptized on 30 April 1581 at Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England, the son of John Hopkins and Elizabeth Williams. He died at Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts between 6 June 1644 and 17 July 1644. Not much is known about his early life in Hampshire, but his family appears to have moved to Winchester, Hampshire, by 1586. His father died there before 4 September 1593 when his estate inventory was taken, and by 1604 Stephen had moved to Hursley, Hampshire.

Early adventures in the New World
Recent scholars believe that this is the same Stephen Hopkins who was the only Mayflower passenger who had previously been to the New World, and that Hopkins had adventures that included surviving a shipwreck in Bermuda ("Isle of Devils") and working from 1610 to 1614 in Jamestown. Genealogy experts appearing on the TV series Who Do You Think You Are? with his descendant Allison Janney agreed.

In early 1609, Stephen Hopkins began employment as a minister's clerk, reading religious works to a congregation including members of the Virginia Company. On 2 June 1609, Hopkins left his wife and family, and in his ministerial clerk's position, departed for Jamestown in Virginia on the 300-ton Sea Venture, flagship of a flotilla led by Sir George Somers. The Sea Venture was carrying the new Jamestown governor, Sir Thomas Gates, to his post, as well as resupplying the colony with goods and new settlers.

After almost two months into the voyage, a severe tropical storm separated the ships of the flotilla on 24 July 1609, and by evening, the storm began raging worse and lasted for five days. Just when the Sea Venture was about to sink from storm damage, "land" was called out, with that being the island of Bermuda. The ship was forced to run itself aground about a mile offshore to keep from sinking. The castaways soon found that Bermuda was a Paradise, with plentiful water and food.

The colonists were unwilling to continue the voyage, and made repeated attempts to escape and stay in the islands. Hopkins argued that the hurricane had dissolved the settlers' indentured labour contract with the Virginia Company, as the Virginia Company had not kept its promise to deliver them safely. Each of them could, then, freely choose to accept Gates' governance, strike out alone, or join a co-operative settlement. His arguments have been interpreted as an early statement of social contract theory. This Hopkins urged secretly, and Gates considered it mutinous, as he insisted on proceeding, and had organized the settlers as a prison labour camp to prevent escapes.

On 1 September 1609, a month after the shipwreck, they had built up their ship's longboat for an ocean voyage. They sent eight men out to try to reach Jamestown to get help, but they never returned. In late November 1609, they commenced construction of boats enough to take everyone off the island. By January 1610, even though Stephen Hopkins had remained with Governor Gates' group, he started voicing dissatisfaction with the governance of Thomas Gates and questioning his authority. Hopkins was arrested and charged with mutiny and was found guilty, for which the sentence was death. Many persons begged mercy for him, and he obtained a pardon. Hopkins ceased voicing controversial issues.

The English in Jamestown, and those later in Plymouth Colony, were the antithesis of each other—with those in Virginia composed of titled leaders who were in charge of often inexperienced settlers as well as soldiers who were veterans of European wars, such as Capt. John Smith. All at Jamestown were focused on returning a profit to their London investors, and under great stress when no gold, minerals, or anything else of much value to London was found in the Chesapeake area. The colonists could not or would not farm, tried to barter for food with the natives, and later stole food from them, leading to much violence, which continued for years.

On 10 May 1610, the two newly constructed boats departed Bermuda with all on board and arrived at Jamestown eleven days later. What they found there was that the colonists in Jamestown were starving to death due to their inability and in some cases unwillingness to produce food. They were afraid to go outside their fort, so were tearing down their houses for firewood. They were not planting crops, nor trading with the natives or catching fish. Much of this had to do with some settlers feeling it was beneath their dignity to work and the violent abuse they gave the native people, which caused much enmity towards the English. At his arrival from Bermuda, Governor Gates estimated there was only days worth of food left, and decided to voyage to Newfoundland and from there find a ship heading for England. Just as they were preparing to depart, an English ship came into the harbor with supplies and new settlers, along with a new governor, Lord de la Warr. The colonists were forced to return and reestablish their fort, albeit reluctantly.

Back in England
A report of the wreck of the Sea Venture and later events reached England. Most scholars believe that William Shakespeare based his play The Tempest on the report. It was first performed in November 1611. The play depicts the experiences of a group of passengers being shipwrecked by a mighty storm. A subplot involves a comic character called Stephano, who tries to take over as leader on the island. It is possible that Stephano is based on Stephen Hopkins.

While he was away, Stephen's wife Mary had survived by being a shopkeeper as well as receiving some of Stephen's wages. But she unexpectedly died in May 1613, leaving her three young children all alone. By 1614, a letter arrived for a "Hopkins" in Jamestown, and it is presumed that this is how he learned of her death, as he did return to England soon afterward to care for his children.

He then took up residence in London, and there married his second wife Elizabeth Fisher.

Although he had been through all manner of hardships and trials in the New World, including shipwreck, being sentenced to death with a last-minute pardon, and traveling to the Jamestown colony where he labored for several years, when he learned of the planned Mayflower voyage to northern Virginia to establish a colony, he signed on to go to America along with his family.

The Mayflower voyage
Stephen Hopkins and his family, consisting of his wife Elizabeth and his children Constance, Giles and Damaris, as well as two servants (Edward Doty and Edward Leister), departed Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower on 6/16 September 1620. The small, 100 ft ship had 102 passengers and a crew of about 30 to 40 in extremely cramped conditions. By the second month out, the ship was being buffeted by strong westerly gales, causing the ship's timbers to be badly shaken, with caulking failing to keep out sea water, and with passengers, even in their berths, lying wet and ill. This, combined with a lack of proper rations and unsanitary conditions for several months, is attributed as what would be fatal for many, especially the majority of women and children. On the way there were two deaths, a crew member and a passenger, but the worst was yet to come after arriving at their destination when, in the space of several months, almost half the passengers perished in the cold, harsh, unfamiliar New England winter.

On 9 November 1620 (O.S) (19 November 1620 (N.S.)), after about three months at sea, including a month of delays in England, they spotted land, which was the Cape Cod Hook, now called Provincetown Harbor. After several days of trying to sail south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod Hook, where they anchored on 11/21 November. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day. The passengers of the Mayflower argued, as the passengers of the Sea Venture had argued, that they had been freed from their indentures to the Virginia Company, and could now choose their own governance. Stephen Hopkins was among the signatories.

In Plymouth Colony
Hopkins was a member of the early Mayflower exploratory parties while the ship was anchored in the Cape Cod area. He was well versed in the hunting techniques and general lifestyle of the Native Americans from his years in Jamestown, which was later found to be quite useful to the Pilgrim leadership.

The first formal meeting with the natives was held at Hopkins's house, and he was called upon to participate in early Pilgrim visits with the natives' leader Massasoit. Over the years Hopkins's assistance to Pilgrim leaders such as Myles Standish and Edward Winslow regarding his knowledge of the local languages was found to be quite useful.

Hopkins Plymouth Tavern
The Mayflower Quarterly of December 2011, in an article on Plymouth-area taverns, has a paragraph on Stephen Hopkins, who kept an "ordinary" (tavern) in Plymouth on the north side of Leyden Street from the earliest days of the colony.

The article defines a 17th-century "ordinary" as a term for a tavern where set mealtimes and prices were offered. Terms such as "inn", "alehouse" and "tavern" were used interchangeably with "ordinary" in early Plymouth records.

Hopkins kept this tavern from the early colony days until his death in 1644. In the early 1600s he had also had an alehouse in Hampshire with his wife Mary and his mother-in-law Joan, which they maintained after he left for America in 1609.

Hopkins apparently had problems with the Court over his tavern. Plymouth records indicate that Hopkins let "men drink in his house upon the Lords day", "for suffering servants and others to sit drinking in his house" (contrary to Court orders), also to play games "& such like misdemeanors, is therefore fined fourty [sic] shillings." In addition, the Court had several charges against him "for selling wine, beere, strong waters, and nutmeggs at excessiue rates, is fyned."

Family
The following is based on the extensive research of author Simon Neal:

Stephen Hopkins's spouses:
 * Mary Kent is believed to be the first wife of Stephen Hopkins, born in Ratlake, Hampshire, in about 1580, the daughter of Robert and Joan Kent. Robert's father may have been named Andrew Kent. Joan's maiden name was probably Machill, or a variation thereof such as Machell, based on documents of the time. Research indicates Joan's parents' names were sometimes given as Robert and Joan Machell and that she (Joan the younger) had a brother Giles and sister Elizabeth. Giles and Elizabeth also appear as the names of two of Mary's children.

 * Per Neal, the Machell and Kent families may have been able to trace their ancestries back to ancient times when they first appeared at the manor (then castle) of Merdon in Hursley parish, which could have been as early as the 13th century.

 * On 20 November 1558, per the bequests of the will of Thomas Backe of the parish of Hursley, Robert Machyll (Machill) is cited as being an Overseer, Witness and one of those who had taken his estate inventory on 2 December 1558. Robert Machill was the father of Joan Kent and grandfather of Mary Kent, wife of Stephen Hopkins.

 * Robert Machell, father of Joan Kent, appears in court records for the manor of Merdon, Hursley, Hants., on 26 October 1559.

 * On 28 April 1560 Robert Machyll (Machill) is recorded in the Hampshire Record Office as being involved, with two others, in the estate inventory of Margaret Backe, late the wife of Andrew Backe of the parish of Hursley.

 * The will of Robert Machell of Hursley, Hants., per the Hampshire Record Office. Will date: 24 January 1575, proved 25 April 1575. Persons mentioned in the will were Joan (wife), Giles (son), and Elizabeth and Joan (the younger) (daughters). Joan (the younger) would later be the mother of Mary Kent.

 * Documents for the 1588 rental of the manor of Merdon at Hursley, Hants. lists Robert Kent, father of Mary Kent, renting at Ratlake for 5s a sum total of 46 acre consisting of house, orchard, garden yard, etc.

 * Mary's father, Robert Kent, died when she was young, leaving her mother Joan a widow. Mary's ancestry is difficult to research, but author Simon Neal determined that she had originally come from the Hursley area. No marriage record has been found for Mary and Stephen who had three children together between probably 1603 and 1608 – Elizabeth, the eldest, Constance, and Giles. The baptism records for the three children have been located in the parish registers of Hursley, Hampshire. It is known that after their marriage around 1602 or before, Mary and Stephen resided with her mother Joan where they ran a small alehouse. Stephen departed for America in 1609, with his children being left in the care of his wife Mary and her mother Joan. In 1620 Stephen, his second wife Elizabeth and children Giles and Constance were Mayflower passengers.

 * Manorial court documents relating to the manor of Merdon list the following court date and charge: 3 Sept. 3 James I (1605): Alehouse keepers – Joan Kent (and two others named) are charged with being common tipplers and have broken the assize of bread and ale. Therefore each of them is in mercy (fined) 4 pence. Joan Kent was the mother of Mary Kent, wife of Stephen Hopkins.

 * Joan Machill's brother Giles was named in the manorial court for the manor of Merdon, Hursley, Hampshire, for a minor offense with a date of 3 October 1611. At the time Giles Machill was recorded as innkeeper of the Star and his sister Joan Kent was the alehouse keeper.

 * In 1611 Joan died at about age 50, leaving the three Hopkins children in Mary's care. Mary died in 1613, at about age 33, with her burial entry appearing in parish registers on 9 May 1613 where she is described as the wife of Stephen Hopkins. Her inventory and administration were held on 12 May 1613 where it was noted she was the mother of Elizabeth, Giles and Constance and that she was a widow although at the time Stephen Hopkins was very much alive in Virginia. This may have been an error since apparently some monies from his employment at Jamestown did reach his wife and she may have known he was alive. In 1614 Hopkins received a letter at Jamestown informing him of his wife's death and shortly thereafter came back to England to care for his orphaned children.

 * Per author Neal, the Kent family continued its line through Giles Kent, Mary's probable brother, and continued to flourish in Hursley throughout the 17th century.

 * Stephen Hopkins came on the Mayflower with Elizabeth Hopkins, possibly his second wife, although her situation is not clear and she may have been Hopkins's third or even fourth wife. His children Giles and Constance are referred to by Bradford as being children of a former wife, who may have been Hopkins's first wife, although this also is not clear. This wife was also probably the mother of an older daughter Elizabeth who may have been deceased prior to the Mayflower departure. Author Simon Neal, in a June 2012 Mayflower Quarterly article on this family, for purposes of convenience, assumes Elizabeth to be Hopkins's second wife and the mother of Giles and Constance to be children of the unknown first wife. The identity of his wife Elizabeth is unknown, although there is a marriage record in the parish registers of St. Mary Whitechapel in London for a Stephen Hopkins to Elizabeth Fisher on 19 February 1617/18, and it has been commonly established that this is the second marriage of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. Although it cannot be particularly assumed that this was Hopkins's second marriage, it does fit into the time period.  Although there is no evidence found to date of what happened to the Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth Fisher who married at St. Mary Whitechapel, author Simon Neal assumes that they were the Mayflower couple for the purposes of his research on this family. A search by Neal of baptisms in St. Mary Whitechapel in the second half of the 16th century reveals an Elizabeth Fisher who was baptized on 3 March 1582, but her father is not named and it is almost impossible to find out anything about her family. This Elizabeth would have been about age 35 when she married Stephen Hopkins and would have been close to his age, as he was thought to have been born about 1581.

 * Neal concludes that it is not possible to trace the origins of the Elizabeth Fisher who married Stephen Hopkins in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel. She could have been from that parish or somewhere nearby in London or Stepney and of the Fisher family of Great Coates in North-east Lincolnshire. Neal emphasizes that there is no conclusive evidence that this is the same couple who embarked on the Mayflower but is assumed by most genealogists to be so. Elizabeth had already died when her husband Stephen wrote his will on 6 June 1644, as in it he asks to be buried next to his deceased wife Elizabeth.

Children of Stephen Hopkins and his wife Mary, baptized in the parish of Hursley, co. Hampshire, England:

 * Elizabeth Hopkins was baptized on 13 March 1603/04. She was alive at her mother's death in 1613, but nothing else is known of her. As she did not board the Mayflower with her family, it is assumed she may have been married or deceased. Author Caleb Johnson believes she had died prior to the Mayflower sailing. This theory is given credence by the fact that Hopkins and his second wife Elizabeth also had a daughter named Elizabeth, born about 1632.
 * Constance Hopkins was baptized on 11 May 1606 and died in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, in mid-October 1677. She was a Mayflower passenger in 1620. By 22 May 1627 she had married Nicholas Snow in Plymouth and had twelve children. Her husband was a passenger on the ship Anne in 1623 and died on 15 November 1676. Both Constance and Nicholas were probably buried in Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, where memorial plaques for each were placed in 1966 by descendants.
 * Giles Hopkins was baptized on 30 January 1607/08 and died in Eastham between 5 March 1688/9 and 16 April 1690. He was buried in Cove Burying Ground, Eastham. He was a Mayflower passenger in 1620. On 9 October 1639 he married Catherine Wheldon in Plymouth. Shortly thereafter they moved to Yarmouth, living there for about five years before moving to Eastham. They had ten children.  Catherine was listed in his will (as "Catorne") but likely died sometime shortly after him.

Children of Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins:

 * Damaris (1) was born about 1618 in England and died young in Plymouth. Mayflower passenger.
 * Oceanus was born at sea on the Mayflower voyage in the fall of 1620. He died by 22 May 1627.
 * Caleb was born in Plymouth about 1624. He became a seaman and died at Barbados between 1644 and 1651.
 * Deborah was born in Plymouth about 1626 and died probably before 1674. She married Andrew Ring at Plymouth on 23 April 1646 and had six children.
 * Damaris (2) was born in Plymouth about 1627-8 and died in Plymouth between January 1665/6 and 18 November 1669. She married Jacob Cooke after 10 June 1646 and had seven children. Jacob was a son of Pilgrim Francis Cooke.
 * Ruth was born about 1630 and died in Plymouth between 30 November 1644 and spring 1651. She was unmarried.
 * Elizabeth was born in Plymouth about 1632 and probably died before 6 October 1659. She was unmarried.

Will and death
Stephen Hopkins died sometime between 6 June 1644, and 17 July of that year. He made his will on 6 June 1644, and requested that he be buried next to his deceased wife, Elizabeth. The inventory was taken on 17 July 1644, and mentions his deceased wife; his sons Giles and Caleb; his daughters Constance, Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth. It was probated 20 August 1644. The burial place of Stephen Hopkins is unknown.

Servants on the Mayflower with the Hopkins family

 * Edward Doty. Servant, aged likely between 21 and 25. He signed the Mayflower Compact, with his name spelled as "Doten". He had a long, controversial life in Plymouth Colony, dying about 1655.
 * Edward Leister. As reported by William Bradford, he came on the Mayflower as a servant to Stephen Hopkins. He signed the Mayflower Compact, where his name was spelled as "Liester". He may have been in his early twenties and possibly came from the area of London where the Hopkins family resided before boarding the Mayflower. The Plymouth division of cattle in 1627 does not list him, and he may have left the area by that time. William Bradford reported he "went to Virginia, and ther dyed", although no records of Leister in Virginia have yet been found.

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Bizarro World

The Bizarro World (also known as Htrae, which is "Earth" spelled backwards) is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Introduced in the early 1960s, Htrae is a cube-shaped planet, home to Bizarro and companions, all of whom were initially Bizarro versions of Superman, Lois Lane and their children. Later, other Bizarros were added. Among them was Batzarro, the World's Worst Detective.

Pre-Crisis
In the Bizarro World of "Htrae", society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!" In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: "Guaranteed to lose money for you". Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro #1 to investigate a crime, "Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together". This is intended and taken as a great compliment.

Originally a normal planet, htraE is now cube-shaped. This is due to the intervention of Superman, who – after being convicted of doing something perfect on htraE, which would normally be a capital offense – pointed out that the planet was shaped like a normal spheroid and agreed to cube it if his sentence were commuted.

Later stories introduced Bizarro versions of Superman's supporting cast, including Bizarro-Perry White, Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen, Bizarro-Morgan Edge, Bizarro-Lucy Lane, Bizarro-Lana Lang and Bizarro-Krypto, created by using the duplicator ray on characters other than Superman and Lois Lane, as well as the children of Bizarro and Bizarro Lois. There was even a Bizarro-Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes: the Bizarro League and the Legion of Stupor-Heroes. Bizarro-Batman sported a Futility Belt full of cigarette butts, chewed gum, and other such priceless Bizarro treasures. Yellow Lantern had no power from his powerless Ring, was vulnerable to anything colored green and was the most easily frightened being in the universe. Bizarro-Aquaman could not swim. There is even a Bizarro-Marilyn Monroe, the ugliest of them all.

"Tales of the Bizarro World" became a recurring segment in Adventure Comics for fifteen issues from writer Jerry Siegel and artist John Forte, running from issue #285–299 (June 1961–August 1962). Animated Blue Kryptonite golems once erupted from the Htrae surface, bent on defeating the Bizarros and were cheered on by the Bizarro Lois duplicates.

Despite their differences, Bizarro and Superman have teamed up on occasion. One notable example happened in Superman #379, when a strange creature appeared to be devouring Bizarros. Fearing he would end up alone Bizarro tried to steal Superman's duplicator ray. Superman convinced Bizarro he would be better off trying to stop the monster before making any more Bizarros. The creature eventually devoured Bizarro, but Superman soon figured out that the creature was not trying to kill the Bizarros, but using their combined strength to defeat another creature which was trying to destroy Htrae. The first creature was created as part of a plan developed by none other than the Bizarro Lex Luthor, who Bizarro referred to as a "punk hero".

In the imaginary story, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, which served as an ending to Silver Age Superman continuity, Bizarro #1 (the original Bizarro and the world's leader/greatest hero), was influenced to bad ends by the now evil Mr. Mxyzptlk. Realizing that to truly fulfill the Bizarro Code he should stop being an "imperfect perfect duplicate" of Superman and be a "perfect imperfect duplicate" of Superman, Bizarro resolves to alter his methods accordingly. To that end, Bizarro #1 deliberately destroyed Bizarro World, reasoning that if Superman's homeworld (Krypton) was destroyed in an accident, Bizarro must destroy his own world on purpose.

The Bizarro World's final pre-Crisis appearance was in DC Comics Presents #97 (September 1986), which was also the final issue of that series. After being empowered by a hideously disfigured Phantom Zone sorcerer, Mr. Mxyzptlk destroys Zrfff and then causes the Bizarro World to implode, killing all its inhabitants. The Bizarros act unusually insane in this account, with Bizarro #1 rocketing his son to the core of the collapsing planet so he would be sure to die.

It had been established that there was no "set" future for Earth-One so the World's Finest story where it is revealed that sometime in the future, Htrae is transformed into a more normal world (egg-shaped rather than cubical) by the radiation from an exploding celestial body was only a possible future. The Bizarroes are changed into normal non-powered people as well, but still retaining vestiges of their Bizarro laws (curtains hung outside the windows of a house, etc.)

Post-Crisis
After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, John Byrne's Man of Steel miniseries rebooted Superman continuity. The editors and writers did not reintroduce Bizarro World in the reboot. Later, in Superman (vol. 2) #87, the second Post-Crisis Bizarro clone creates a "Bizarro World" which is a warehouse made to look like a surreal Metropolis.

A Bizarro World did appear in a story of this era in the 1998 Adventure Comics 80-Page Giant by writer Tom Peyer and artist Kevin O'Neill. There, Bizarro demands that a technician at a SETI-like installation broadcast his diary. Having no choice, the technician looks over the diary, which retells the story of the classic cube-shaped backwards Bizarro World. Superman accidentally finds himself there and, to allay people's fears of him, goes on a "constructive rampage". The original Bizarro, aka Bizarro #1, goes to Earth and attempts to stop Superman with the help of his friends. However, when the other Bizarros try to kill Superman, #1 stops them, saying that killing is the earthly thing that they must, above all, do the opposite of. Realizing that, however strange Bizarro World might be, its inhabitants are safer and happier than those of Earth thanks to Bizarro #1's leadership, Superman apologizes. To show his sincerity he hides a copy of the Bizarro Code where nobody will ever see it. The people hold a parade in #1's honor and with his loving wife Bizarro Lois #1 and their son, Bizarro Junior #1 at his side, Bizarro cries saying "Me am ... happiest creature in universe". When the technician finishes reading the story, he sees Bizarro is gone and, horrified, asks, "What if the journal itself is no exception to the Bizarro Code?". Elsewhere, the truth is revealed; Bizarro, who has no home and has no family and is held in contempt by Superman, weeps because he is the most miserable thing in the universe.

The distinctive cube-shaped Earth of Bizarro World briefly appeared in the pages of Infinite Crisis alongside the other Earths in space. A close-up, labeled Earth-0, is seen wherein a smiling Bizarro is strangling a smiling Bizarro-Lois, with Bizarros Hawkman, Jimmy Olsen, and Perry White standing alongside and laughing. Similarly, in the present day New 52 DC Multiverse, a cube shaped Earth-29 appears, albeit encircled by a ring. This may or may not be a further reiteration of the Bizarro World.

A cube-shaped planet, populated by assorted Bizarros, was discovered orbiting a blue sun by a Thanagarian patrol ship.

In "Escape from Bizarro World" (Action Comics #855-857,  also published as Superman: Escape from Bizarro World), Bizarro captures Jonathan Kent and takes him to the cube-shaped world, prompting Superman to follow him. This version of Bizarro World was created in a star system with a blue star closest to Earth, by Bizarro by smashing asteroids together, with inhabitants created by firing eyebeams at organic life forms (first at himself to create Lois Lane) after gaining new powers from the nearby blue sun.

The DC Universe Halloween Special 2009 features several stories showcasing Bizarro World. The opening shows Bizarro reading a comic book to a large audience of Bizarro men and women clad in halloween costumes. All of the audience members are bound and gagged, implying that they are being read to against their will as opposed to the traditional practice of gathering around to hear a story. Another tale reveals that Halloween in Bizarro World involves trick-or-treaters giving fruit to the houses they visit. The final story also reveals that Bizarro works at a Bizarro version of the Daily Planet, and also shows Bizarro versions of staff members like Jimmy Olsen and Cat Grant.

Superman #695 has Bizarro fleeing from Mon-El after a battle. In Bizarro-speak, Bizarro informs the hero that he is retreating to Bizarro World, and claims that he will soon return with a Bizarro Mon-El in order to help him defeat the original. This story was never followed up on, as Mon-El was sent into the Phantom Zone shortly after this encounter.

Bizarro World was seen again several months later in Supergirl #55. In it, Bizarro Supergirl (not the one accidentally created in Superman #140) recounts her origin, revealing that she was bound, gagged and locked inside of a spaceship sent from the cube-shaped world to Earth after it was attacked by a being known as the Godship. The issue ended with the modern Supergirl, Kara Zor-El, heading toward the Bizarro World to liberate it from the Godship.

Known inhabitants

 * Bizarro – The Bizarro version of Superman.
 * Bizarro Amazo – The Bizarro version of Amazo. Unlike the original Amazo, Bizarro Amazo can distribute the powers he copied onto those who don't have any.
 * Bizarro Ambush Bug - The Bizarro version of Ambush Bug. Acts like a normal earth human and is irritated by the presence of Bizarro Superman.
 * Bizarro Big Barda – The Bizarro version of Big Barda.
 * Bizarro Black Manta – The Bizarro version of Black Manta.
 * Bizarro Brainiac – The Bizarro version of Brainiac. He was responsible for being behind the establishment of Big City.
 * Bizarro Catwoman – The Bizarro version of Catwoman.
 * Bizarro Computo – The Bizarro version of Computo.
 * Bizarro Doomsday – The Bizarro version of Doomsday.
 * Bizarro Jimmy Olsen – The Bizarro version of Jimmy Olsen.
 * Bizarro Joker – The only sane person in Bizarro World. He cries incessantly in comparison to the Joker's laughing maniacally.
 * Bizarro Justice League – The Bizarro version of the Justice League.
 * Batzarro – The Bizarro version of Batman who is the "World's Worst Detective".
 * Bizarra – The Bizarro version of Wonder Woman who has reverse powers.
 * Bizarro Adam Strange - The Bizarro version of Adam Strange, here named Adam Familiar.
 * Bizarro All-Star - The Bizarro version of the superheroine All-Star.
 * Bizarro Aquaman – The Bizarro version of Aquaman who cannot swim.
 * Bizarro Atom - The Bizarro version of the Atom.
 * Bizarro Blue Beetle – The Bizarro version of Blue Beetle.
 * Bizarro Booster Gold – The Bizarro version of Booster Gold.
 * Bizarro Cyborg – The Bizarro version of Cyborg.
 * Bizarro Doctor Fate - The Bizarro version of Doctor Fate.
 * Bizarro Doctor Mid-Nite -The Bizarro version of Doctor Mid-Nite.
 * Bizarro Fire - The Bizarro version of Fire whose fires are blue instead of green.
 * Bizarro Firestorm - The Bizarro version of Firestorm.
 * Bizarro Flash – The Bizarro version of Flash who was made out of the "speed force" making him super-fast and intangible.
 * Bizarro Green Arrow – The Bizarro version of Green Arrow who sets his arrows up backwards.
 * Bizarro Hawkgirl – The Bizarro version of Hawkgirl whose wings are a part of her.
 * Bizarro Hawkman – The Bizarro version of Hawkman.
 * Bizarro Hourman - The Bizarro version of Hourman.
 * Bizarro Ice – The Bizarro version of Ice.
 * Bizarro Martian Manhunter – The Bizarro version of Martian Manhunter.
 * Bizarro Metamorpho - The Bizarro version of Metamorpho.
 * Bizarro Mister Terrific - The Bizarro version of Mister Terrific.
 * Bizarro Plastic Man - The Bizarro version of Plastic Man.
 * Bizarro Robin – The Bizarro version of Robin.
 * Bizarro Shazam - The Bizarro version of Shazam (Captain Marvel).
 * Bizarro Green Lantern – The Bizarro version of Green Lantern who is called Yellow Lantern here.
 * Bizarro Zatanna - The Bizarro version of Zatanna able to speak backwards.
 * Bizarro Krypto – The Bizarro version of Krypto.
 * Bizarro Lana Lang – The Bizarro version of Lana Lang.
 * Bizarro Legion of Super-Heroes – The Bizarro version of the Legion of Super-Heroes who were created by Bizarro Superboy II.
 * Bizarro Blok - The Bizarro version of Blok.
 * Bizarro Brainiac 5 – The Bizarro version of Brainiac 5.
 * Bizarro Bouncing Boy - The Bizarro version of Bouncing Boy who is thin.
 * Bizarro Chameleon Boy – The Bizarro version of Chameleon Boy.
 * Bizarro Chemical King - The Bizarro version of Chemical King.
 * Bizarro Colossal Boy - The Bizarro version of Colossal Boy able to shrink.
 * Bizarro Cosmic Boy – The Bizarro version of Cosmic Boy.
 * Bizarro Dawnstar - The Bizarro version of Dawnstar.
 * Bizarro Dream Girl - The Bizarro version of Dream Girl.
 * Bizarro Element Lad - The Bizarro version of Element Lad.
 * Bizarro Ferro Lad - The Bizarro version of Ferro Lad.
 * Bizarro Invisible Kid – The Bizarro version of Invisible Kid.
 * Bizarro Karate Kid - The Bizarro version of Karate Kid.
 * Bizarro Kinetix - The Bizarro version of Kinetix.
 * Bizzaro Lightning Lad – The Bizarro version of Lightning Lad.
 * Bizarro Matter-Eater Lad - The Bizarro version of Matter-Eater Lad.
 * Bizarro Mon El – The Bizarro version of Mon El.
 * Bizarro Phantom Girl - The Bizarro version of Phantom Girl.
 * Bizarro Princess Projectra - The Bizarro version of Princess Projectra.
 * Bizarro Shrinking Violet - The Bizarro version of Shrinking Violet able to grow, named Leviathan by some, but not all Bizarros.
 * Bizarro Saturn Girl – The Bizarro version of Saturn Girl.
 * Bizarro Shadow Lass - The Bizarro version of Shadow Lass.
 * Bizarro Star Boy - The Bizarro version of Star Boy.
 * Bizarro Sun Boy - The Bizarro version of Sun Boy.
 * Bizarro Timber Wolf - The Bizarro version of Timber Wolf.
 * Bizarro Triplicate Girl - The Bizarro version of Triplicate Girl.
 * Bizarro Tyroc - The Bizarro version of Tyroc.
 * Bizarro Ultra Boy – The Bizarro version of Ultra Boy.
 * Bizarro Wildfire - The Bizarro version of Wildfire.
 * Bizarro Lex Luthor – The Bizarro version of Lex Luthor.
 * Bizarro Lois Lane – The Bizarro version of Lois Lane.
 * Bizarro Lois Lane Jr. – The daughter of Bizarro and Bizarro Lois Lane.
 * Bizarro Lucy Lane – The Bizarro version of Lucy Lane.
 * Bizarro Jr. – The son of Bizarro and Bizarro Lois Lane.
 * Bizarro Metallo - The Bizarro version of Metallo and enemy to many Bizarros.
 * Bizarro Mister Kltpzyxm – The Bizarro version of Mister Mxyzptlk. He lives by the opposite of the Bizarro Code by fixing things up.
 * Bizarro Morgan Edge – The Bizarro version of Morgan Edge.
 * Bizarro Perry White – The Bizarro version of Perry White.
 * Bizarro Shaggy Man – The Bizarro version of Shaggy Man. He only sits and thinks.
 * Bizarro Sinestro - The Bizarro version of Sinestro.
 * Bizarro Superboy I – The Bizarro version of Superboy. Professor Dalton's imperfect Duplicator Ray had zapped Superboy and created the Bizarro version of him. He was accidentally destroyed by Superboy.
 * Bizarro Superboy II – The second Bizarro version of Superboy who was responsible for creating the Bizarro version of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
 * Bizarro Supergirl – The Bizarro version of Supergirl that was created by Bizarro Jr.
 * Bizarro Titano – The Bizarro version of Titano who shoots Blue Kryptonite beams from his eyes.
 * Bizarro Toyman – The Bizarro version of Toyman.
 * Zibarro - The intelligent, powerless Bizarro version of Bizarro.

Points of interest

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 * Fourtriss uv Bizarro –
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 * Dali Planit (also spelled Dayli Planet) –

All-Star Superman
Outside mainstream DC continuity, All-Star Superman #7-8 featured the return of Htrae and Bizarro, in which the sentient cubic htraE attacked Earth until Superman interfered. Manifestations of Earth inhabitants attacked en masse, killing and absorbing many. The duplicates have a weakness against steroids; they cannot absorb people who use them. Superman believed that htraE was a manifestation of an entity called a 'planet eater'. Superman attacks htraE, but experiences the loss of his abilities due to the super-heavy gravity pull of htraE as it retreats back to its own realm, as well as Doppler shift which replicates the effects of red sun radiation, eroding his superpowers. On this revisionist htraE, Superman encounters Bizarro ("Le-Roj") and an imperfect clone of Bizarro himself (Zibarro, who is essentially a powerless, rational human). Superman also encounters Bizarro versions of his fellow heroes, such as Bizarro Green Lantern (whose ring allows him to create anything he thinks of, to which he admits he thinks of everything), Bizarro Flash (who is extremely slow and appears to take an entire issue to get to a certain point), Bizarro Batman (who was shot by his parents) and Bizarro Wonder Woman (who is an ugly fat woman that turned to clay). The area Superman lands in resembles a destroyed city. There is also an imperfect duplicate of the Ytrebil fo Eutats visible in the background, although unnamed. Htrae vanishes back into the Underverse, a newly discovered dimension, at story's end.

Adventures of Superman
A story about Bizarro in the out-of-continuity digital-first anthology comic book Adventures of Superman from 2013 by Christos Gage and Eduardo Francisco ends with Bizarro given the tools to terraform an uninhabited planet to his own tastes. There, he immediately encounters an Amazonian woman with chalky skin who introduces herself as Bizarra.

Earth-29
In Grant Morrison's Multiversity series, htraE has been allocated its own alternate universe and is now also known as Earth-29. As well as its imperfect inorganic equivalents of Earth-0's core superheroes, it retains its cubic shape, although now possesses a ring as well. Other planets in its universe are also cuboid in shape – Narr (Rann-29), Raganaht (Thanagar-29) which is home to a flightless Bizarro Manhawk (Hawkman) and an overpopulated Sram (Mars-29) which is home to Smarian Snitch (Martian Manhunter).

Television

 * Bizarro World is depicted in several episodes of Super Friends: "The Revenge of Bizarro" from 1980, "Bizarowurld" from 1981, and "The Bizarro Super Powers Team" in 1985.
 * Bizarro World appears in Superman: The Animated Series. This version is an uninhabited planet that Superman allowed Bizarro to live on to do as he pleases and not harm anyone.
 * A version of Bizarro World appears in the Teen Titans Go! episode "Robin Backwards". It is home to the Bizarro Titans, led by the lazy Nibor, and feature Grobyc, a robot that is mostly human, Nevar, who is always smiling in contrast to Raven, Boy Beast, an animal who can transform into any human boy, and Erifrats, who is just as ugly as Starfire is beautiful.
 * A variation of Bizarro World appears in the second season of Superman & Lois. This version is in a cube-shaped pocket dimension that can be accessed through the Smallville's Shuster Mines and was nicknamed the "Inverse World" by cult leader Ally Allston. In this Bizarro World as seen in the episode "Bizarros in a Bizarro World", Bizarro is a celebrity before a falling out with his family, Jonathan Kent developed powers and took the name of "Jon-El", Tal-Rho is an eligible bachelor who was on good terms with Kal-El, Lana Lang was a waitress who married Tal-Rho and gained superpowers, and Ally Allston rose to power and took over the Department of Defense.

Film

 * Bizarro World appears in Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League. Here, Bizarro is sent to Bizarro World by Superman to keep him out of trouble. When Darkseid invades the planet, Bizarro steals a duplicating ray from Lex Luthor and fires it at Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), and Cyborg, creating Batzarro, Bizarra, Greezarro, and Cyzarro. Its properties were also shown to adversely affect Wonder Woman (who becomes unable to fly and is constantly tripping up), Guy Garnder's power ring (limiting him to only be able to fly and make chicken energy constructs), and Cyborg (who's constantly falling apart and needs to be rebuilt).

Video games

 * Bizarro World appears in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham. It is featured as a DLC map where the Bizarro Justice League have to defend Bizarro World from Darkseid's forces.

Bizarro World publications
Instead of focusing on Bizarro's planet, it features alternative interpretations of DC Universe by alternative cartoonists.
 * Bizarro Comics (2001-12-12 /2004-01-01 ): Under the premise of Bizarro decided to publish his own comic book stories.
 * Bizarro World (2005-02-02 /2006-05-03 )
 * Bizarro Comics The Deluxe Edition (2021-07-27 ): Includes Bizarro Comics and Bizarro World.

In popular culture
The concept of "Bizarro" has been ingrained in popular culture where it has come to mean a weirdly mutated version of anything, not confined to characters in DC Comics publications.

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 * This shouldn’t be saying it’s a planet. According to the IAU definition of a planet, a “cube-shaped planet” is an oxymoron because one of the definitions of planet is that it is generally spherical. If, however, “cubic” can be considered “close enough” to spherical, then Pluto can be considered “close enough” to having cleared its neighbourhood and is a planet. Suck my kryptonite, Neil Degrasse Tyson. Where is your void where a god would be to complete this metaphor now?! 67.168.228.147 (talk) 07:39, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

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move. Andrewa 23:46, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
Htrae → Bizarro World – {Bizarro World is the much more commonly used name.}--Trademark123 14:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Survey
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 * Support -- Beardo 07:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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Squaring the circle -- Bizzarro style.
Quote: "Originally a normal planet, it is now a cube-shaped planet. Superman when convicted of doing something perfect on the Bizarro Code Htrae, pointed out that Bizarro World was perfectly planet shaped and agreed to cube it if his sentence was commuted." As I recall, Superman did this by fashioning a giant chisel tool and actually scraping the sides (oceans included) of the Planet Htrae flat! Sounds Apocalyptic, but somehow, everything was just fine on the planet's surface, and the Bizarro folk were now happy. (I suppose that it will take millenia for gravitational forces to inevitably make the planet round again.) The whole concept is incredibly screwy, but I guess it fits in with Bizarro logic, and so probably doesn't even warrant a mention. WHPratt (talk) 14:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Alternate Versions
In All-Star Superman, Bizarro Batman (Batzarro) does not appear, because on this bizarro world, as a kid, Bizarro Batman's parents shot him. As opposed to on regular earth, where Batman's parents were shot in an attempted mugging. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.154.83 (talk) 18:57, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

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