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A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and…
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Each month this column will examine an unfinished work left behind by one of our greatest authors. What might have been genius, and what might have been better left locked in the drawer? How and why…
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The essayist is Kristopher Jansma, a Professor and Author of Why We Came to the City, and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards.
Nava Atlas's curator insight,
August 13, 2017 5:21 PM
I don't often read speculative/science fiction but I've fallen in love with Octavia Butler's work. She's being re-examined, discovered, rediscovered by a whole new audience, which will only continue to grow.
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As a preteen, Octavia Butler decided she'd had enough of second-rate science fiction. "Geez," she said after watching Devil Girl from Mars, a 1954 B-movie. "I
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During an interview in the 1980s, Black female science fiction writer Octavia Butler was asked her how it felt to be THE Black female science fiction writer. And Octavia replied she never wanted th...
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