“You’ve got to make your own worlds. You’ve got to write yourself in.” — Octavia E. Butler Butler became a groundbreaking author and Afrofuturist icon, emerging as a powerful voice in science fiction in the 1970s. She used her work to challenge perceptions of identity, sexuality, belonging, hierarchy, community, and history while often exploring what it truly means to be human. Rather than mimic the styles of white male authors who dominated the field, she used Afrocentric themes in stories abou
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Octavia E. Butler died 20 years ago today at age 58. Celebrated for her pioneering work in Afrofuturism and speculative fiction, Butler was the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition in that genre. Her works, such as "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower" nurture a deeper understanding of the past, present, and possible futures and continue to be reexamined by scholars and embraced by new aud
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Octavia E. Butler died 20 years ago today at age 58. Celebrated for her pioneering work in Afrofuturism and speculative fiction, Butler was the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition in that genre. Her works, such as "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower" nurture a deeper understanding of the past, present, and possible futures and continue to be reexamined by scholars and embraced by new aud
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Octavia Butler: the dyslexic Black woman who became sci-fi's greatest prophet. Growing up poor in 1950s Pasadena, she faced rejection for years—but kept writing. Her 1993 novel predicted climate crisis, fascism, and "Make America Great Again." When she won the MacArthur Genius Grant, she bought her mother—a lifelong maid—a house. She didn't write to help us escape reality. She wrote to warn us. DISCLAIMER: This story is based on publicly available biographical information about Octavia Butler's
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The Octavia Lab, named after the award-winning science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, is a do-it-yourself makerspace located inside the Los Angeles Public Library’s historic Central Library. Octavia Lab provides library cardholders free and unlimited access to state-of-the-art design, fabrication, preservation, and story-telling technologies. lapl.org/labs | Los Angeles Public Library
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Octavia E. Butler died 20 years ago today at age 58. Celebrated for her pioneering work in Afrofuturism and speculative fiction, Butler was the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur “genius” award and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition in that genre. Her works, such as "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower" nurture a deeper understanding of the past, present, and possible futures and continue to be reexamined by scholars and embraced by new aud
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