@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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@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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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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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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‘I want to live forever and breed people’: The legacy of a fantasy. Octavia E Butler’s quest for empowerment as understood through a patternist philosophical reading of her Patternist series: "I write about power because I felt so powerless"
‘I want to live forever and breed people’: The legacy of a fantasy. Octavia E Butler’s quest for empowerment as understood through a patternist philosophical reading of her Patternist series: "I write about power because I felt so powerless"
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This video features award-winning science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Throughout the month of February, I will be sharing six short videos of me talking about black artist, activist, athletes, and scientist who also have disabilities. As a black man, and a person with a learning disability, the lives and work of these role models deeply inspire me. "Like" this page to get each video I released during Black History Month. :::WATCH, READ & LISTEN::: Watch an Octavia Butler interview from 06/
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This video features award-winning science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Throughout the month of February, I will be sharing six short videos of me talking about black artist, activist, athletes, and scientist who also have disabilities. As a black man, and a person with a learning disability, the lives and work of these role models deeply inspire me. "Like" this page to get each video I released during Black History Month. :::WATCH, READ & LISTEN::: Watch an Octavia Butler interview from 06/
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A rare interview clip of Octavia E. Butler speaking on her struggle with book publishers and editors who were unable to understand her appeal to a wide readership base beyond Science Fiction. Despite being the first Sci Fi writer to be granted a MacArthur Genius Grant, she still faced adversity from publishing houses as a Black woman occupying a primarily white male dominated space.Interview from a 2005 podcast called The Bat Segundo Show.#OctaviaeButler #afrofuturism #Blackwriters
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A rare interview clip of Octavia E. Butler speaking on her struggle with book publishers and editors who were unable to understand her appeal to a wide readership base beyond Science Fiction. Despite being the first Sci Fi writer to be granted a MacArthur Genius Grant, she still faced adversity from publishing houses as a Black woman occupying a primarily white male dominated space.Interview from a 2005 podcast called The Bat Segundo Show.#OctaviaeButler #afrofuturism #Blackwriters
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Happy birthday to the godmother of Afrofuturism, Octavia Butler! 🎉 In a 2003 oral history interview with #MoPOP, hear why she chose science fiction as her medium. 📝 Learn More » MoPOP.org/OctaviaButler | Museum of Pop Culture
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Happy birthday to the godmother of Afrofuturism, Octavia Butler! 🎉 In a 2003 oral history interview with #MoPOP, hear why she chose science fiction as her medium. 📝 Learn More » MoPOP.org/OctaviaButler | Museum of Pop Culture
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The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
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As Democracy Now! marks 25 years on the air, we are revisiting some of the best and most impactful moments from the program's history, including one of the last television interviews given by the visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. She spoke to Democracy Now! in November 2005, just three months before she died on February 24, 2006, at age 58. MORE: bit.ly/3pQF9ip | Democracy Now!
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Y’all know how I love an an author interview. This is Conversations with Octavia Butler edited by Consuela Francis
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