Octavia Butler died at the age of 58 in 2006. At the time of her death, she’d published 16 books, with another volume of uncollected stories published posthumously. Her reputation since her death has only grown, and after fourteen years, in 2020, her book “Parable of the Sower” made the New York Times bestseller list (trade paperback fiction) for the first time. This encore podcast was first posted on December 2, 2018.