![]() Butler, “Her imaginative stories are transcendent fables, which have as much to do with the future as with the present and the past.” The MacArthur Foundation said of Octavia E. ![]() ![]() In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to be awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. She wrote 12 novels and won each of science fiction’s highest honors. What follows is a tour of the worlds that made her - and the worlds that she made. The future she wrote about is now our present moment. Sixteen years after her death, the writer Octavia Butler is experiencing a renaissance.īutler, seen here on a mural at a middle school that bears her name, is celebrated for novels that grappled with extremism, racial justice and the climate crisis. ![]()
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