When FX acquired the rights to SciFi heavyweight Octavia Butler’s Kindred, it became the first of her works to get the live action treatment. Although hugely influential, few non SciFi fans know her name, but ...
Hailed as a visionary scifi writer, Octavia Butler looked at the world around her and then extrapolated. She was pretty on target. She was the first Black woman to win the highest award in science ...
Essence’s Tananarive Due recalls her 90-minute visit with the legendary Octavia Butler in 2000. Butler who passed away in 2006 was a visionary writer whose books have never been more popular. Her best known work ...