Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Octavia E. Butler, considered the first black woman to gain ...

Butler's 1979 book, Kindred, is now a series for FX on Hulu. In 1993, the pioneering author, who died in 2006, told Fresh Air she made up her own... Pioneering writer Octavia Butler on writing Black ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...