Octavia E. Butler disliked her third novel, Survivor, because of its use of sci-fi clichés she described as "really offensive garbage," and she refused to let it be reprinted.
Butler thought of the book as her "Star Trek novel," and explained that it reminded her of stories in which people would explore outer space and discover "either little green men or little brown men" who were "a little like 'the natives' in a very bad, old movie."
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