An Octavia Butler story 10 years in the making — and even more relevant now
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“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 Butler’s science fiction is experiencing a renaissance. Five adaptations of her work are currently in various stages of film and television production. The future she wrote about is now our present, and she saw it with astounding clarity. Read more about her life, work and vision here. https://nyti.ms/3tKvDCc | The New York Times
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One of the things that excited writer Octavia Butler most about science fiction was the endless opportunities of places you could go. The metaverse will be like that too! We’ll be able to travel to faraway places, bring our dreams to life, and create worlds of our own. Where’s your first stop in the metaverse? | Meta
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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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