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This year is the 10th anniversary of the great science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s untimely death; next year marks what would have been her 70th birthday. Butler created a body of work that helped launch a new genre called Afro-Futurism

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Octavia Butler - For sci-fi fiction fans, especially those of color, Octavia is a pioneer for many who liked the genre. As the first science writer who received the MacArthur Award, she wrote the highly-popular “Kindred,” along with “Fledgling” and “Parable of the Sower.” Her work dealt primarily with fantasy and the future, but had an undertone of commentary on race and gender politics

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