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Radio Imagination: Artists and Writers in the Archive of Octavia E. Butler
Available at Clockshop
Documents Clockshop’s yearlong celebration of the life and work of Octavia E. Butler
This limited edition catalog marks the first publication of new poetry and creative nonfiction by Tisa Bryant, Lynell George, Robin Coste Lewis, and Fred Moten, and highlights works in many mediums by Laylah Ali, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, Lauren Halsey, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Connie Samaras. The catalog also includes an unprecedented number of images from the Octavia E. Butler Collection, courtesy of the Huntington Library and the Estate of Octavia E. Butler.
Edited by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, a pioneer of the science fiction genre who paved the way for future African American writers and other writers of colour.
Original essays and letters sourced and curated for this collection explore Butler’s depiction of power relationships, her complex treatment of race and identity, and her impact on feminism and women in Science Fiction. Follow the luminescent threads that connect Octavia E. Butler and her body of work to the many readers and writers who have found inspiration in her words, and the complex universes she created.
Octavia E. Butler
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Written by Gerry Canavan
"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.