Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the ...

This AK Press anthology is named for Black science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Editors Adrienne Maree Brown and Walidah Imarisha have compiled 20 stories written by people who have dedicated ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who ...

Octavia Butler and Richard A. Lupoff in 1983. Octavia Butler (1947-2006) in conversation with Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff, recorded in 1983. Octavia Butler, who died in 2006 at the age of ...

Octavia Butler, who died Saturday at 58, seemed at first glance a stranger in the strange land of science fiction writing. A black woman who made a name for herself in a form whose stereotypical ...

If there’s a sci-fi movie or TV show that you enjoy, there’s a good chance it’s based on a book, and there’s an even better chance that book has won a HUGO AWARD. From Afrofuturist Octavia E Butler to ...

*For many science fiction and fantasy readers, these last names command the spotlight and respect: [J.R.R.] Tolkien, [George R. R.] Martins, [Frank] Herbert, and [Arthur C.] Clarke Within the new crop ...