Science-Fiction author Octavia Butler dies at 58

[flamingyouth]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html

[benburch]

1. Oh that is sad.

58 is much much too young.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. no!

one of my favorite authors.

Parable of the Sower got me hooked on her stuff.

:cry:


This belongs in GD... imho

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. in honor, I just ordered Fledgling, her new book

I was waiting for it to go on sale, or to find a used copy.

so sad that there will never be a sequel.

[Withywindle]

5. Me too!

It's really, really good - not her greatest maybe, but totally boundary-pushing in so many ways.

It's so sad for readers when any great writer dies so young. You know there was so much left to say. In her case, she was only going to keep getting better.

See, I feel weird even saying that--her family and friends, you know--but a great artist touches so many more lives than just those people who knew her personally.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. she sure touched me...

and I'm a red-neck white girl from the midwest!

RIP Octavia :cry:

[Richard D]

4. Damn.

A truly great writer. One of the only, perhaps the only black female speculative fiction writers.


Octavia E. Butler writes: I'm a 53-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Seattle -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

I've had eleven novels published so far: Patternmaster, Mind of my Mind, Survivor, Kindred, Wild Seed, Clay's Ark, Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago, Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents as well as a collection of my shorter work, entitled Bloodchild. I've also had short stories published in anthologies and magazines. One, "Speech Sounds," won a Hugo Award as best short story of 1984. Another, "Bloodchild," won both the 1985 Hugo and the 1984 Nebula awards as best novelette. My most recent novel Parable of the Talents won the 1999 Nebula for Best Novel

-- Octavia Butler

Also Interviewed on Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/11/158201