The limits are the imagination of the writer." Used Fiction to Transcend Realityīutler was born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California. Such explorations, Cooper noted in Vibe, were previously absent from science fiction: "In the '70s, Butler's work exploded into this ideological vacuum like an incipient solar system." As the award-winning author told Black Scholar, "A science fiction writer has the freedom to do absolutely anything. She gives us a future." The Washington Post went further, declaring Butler to be "one of the finest voices in fiction period."īutler's work helped put race and gender into the foreground of speculative fiction, exploring these and other social and political issues with a developed sense of ambiguity and difficulty. Along with "cyberpunk" novelist William Gibson, Terri Sutton of the LA Weekly listed Butler among " science fiction's most thoughtful writers." Vibe magazine's Carol Cooper declared that what Gibson "does for young, disaffected white fans of high tech and low life, Octavia Estelle Butler does for people of color. "It just happened." Butler-the most recognized black woman writer in the genre-became one of sci-fi's leading lights with a career that included publishing the Patternmaster series, the Xenogenesis Trilogy, the celebrated historical fantasy Kindred, and the highly praised dystopian saga The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, among other works. "I didn't decide to become a science fiction writer," Octavia Butler claimed in an interview with Frances M.
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