Octavia E. Butler died four days ago.
I just posted about Octavia Butler's books on Saturday (maybe that was for a reason, since she died Friday).
"For more than 30 years, Seattle science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler dreamed up fantastic worlds and religions, made-up creatures and futuristic plots. Then, in her stylistic prose, she used them to tackle the social issues she was most passionate about."
"Octavia Estelle Butler was born June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, Calif., the only child that her mother carried to full term; four other children died before her birth... Six feet tall and a self-described happy hermit, Ms. Butler escaped easy definition. 'I'm comfortably asocial,' she once wrote, '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.'"
"'Parable of the Talents,' a futuristic story about a utopian community ravaged by civil war, explored modern-day issues of intolerance, the growing gap between rich and poor, and environmentalism. In her first novel, 'Kindred,' she plunged into racial issues when a modern-day character was transported into the body of a pre-Civil War slave.
"'What [Ms. Butler] was writing for the first time was a kind of woman's-eye view, a very smart woman's-eye view, of say, "Brave New World" or "1984,"' said writer Harlan Ellison, Ms. Butler's friend and mentor.
"Ms. Butler died Friday at Northwest Hospital after a fall at her home in Lake Forest Park. She was 58.
A memorial service has been scheduled for science-fiction writer Octavia Butler at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2, 2006, on the third level of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, at 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle. Butler served on the advisory board for the museum.
Articles and obits from: The Business Standard (India), The Washington Post, NYC IndyMedia (features an interview with Butler from January), and another one from WaPo: "Octavia Butler, A Lonely, Bright Star Of the Sci-Fi Universe."
...and then there's this one: "Octavia Butler and the reading wars"
"For more than 30 years, Seattle science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler dreamed up fantastic worlds and religions, made-up creatures and futuristic plots. Then, in her stylistic prose, she used them to tackle the social issues she was most passionate about.""Octavia Estelle Butler was born June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, Calif., the only child that her mother carried to full term; four other children died before her birth... Six feet tall and a self-described happy hermit, Ms. Butler escaped easy definition. 'I'm comfortably asocial,' she once wrote, '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.'"
"'Parable of the Talents,' a futuristic story about a utopian community ravaged by civil war, explored modern-day issues of intolerance, the growing gap between rich and poor, and environmentalism. In her first novel, 'Kindred,' she plunged into racial issues when a modern-day character was transported into the body of a pre-Civil War slave.
"'What [Ms. Butler] was writing for the first time was a kind of woman's-eye view, a very smart woman's-eye view, of say, "Brave New World" or "1984,"' said writer Harlan Ellison, Ms. Butler's friend and mentor.
"Ms. Butler died Friday at Northwest Hospital after a fall at her home in Lake Forest Park. She was 58.
A memorial service has been scheduled for science-fiction writer Octavia Butler at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2, 2006, on the third level of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, at 325 Fifth Ave. N., Seattle. Butler served on the advisory board for the museum.
Articles and obits from: The Business Standard (India), The Washington Post, NYC IndyMedia (features an interview with Butler from January), and another one from WaPo: "Octavia Butler, A Lonely, Bright Star Of the Sci-Fi Universe."
...and then there's this one: "Octavia Butler and the reading wars"
Octavia E. Butler died four days ago.
mr damon, 22:29
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