I'm a little behind on pretty much all my writing, so what the heck. Let's keep Black History Month going for a few more weeks so I can get caught up on the bios.
Today we honor Octavia E. Butler, the amazingly talented author who gave us The Parable of the Talents, Wild Seed, and Bloodchild and many others. Born in 1947 in California, Butler enriched the expanding genre of Science Fiction by adding to it the perspective of an African-American woman.
Butler's fiction addresses the themes of slavery and bondage and its social and cultural implications and has won many awards, including the Hugo and Nebula awards, two of Science Fiction's highest honors.
Octavia E. Butler, 1947-2006
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