How Octavia Butler remembered the fallen Columbia astronauts on the NewsHour
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How Octavia Butler remembered the fallen Columbia astronauts on the NewsHour
Feb 1, 2023
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@npr Octavia Butler’s career started with a bad movie. When Butler – who is remembered as one of the greatest American science fiction writers of all time – watched the British sci-fi film “Devil Girl from Mars” at the age of 12, her first thought was, “Geez, I can write a better story than that.” And so she did. Throughout a very successful decades-long writing career, Butler combined history, science fiction, and fantasy to imagine a liberated future through a Black lens. Her alternate realiti
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@npr Octavia Butler’s career started with a bad movie. When Butler – who is remembered as one of the greatest American science fiction writers of all time – watched the British sci-fi film “Devil Girl from Mars” at the age of 12, her first thought was, “Geez, I can write a better story than that.” And so she did. Throughout a very successful decades-long writing career, Butler combined history, science fiction, and fantasy to imagine a liberated future through a Black lens. Her alternate realiti
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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: Bloodchild
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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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