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Friday, March 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Remembering Octavia Butler

The great African-American science fiction writer saw herself as a reclusive outsider, but to her peers she was a beloved insider.
By Karen Joy Fowler

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  • Friday, March 17, 2006 10:53 AM

    The Human Race

    Let's come to a right understanding; there is only one Human race.

    I would hope that those of us who devour books in the Sci-Fi realm would have realized this very early on. When reading about our protagonists or antagonists dealings with alien humanoids, insectoids, animoids, runaway AI, robots, and, of course, the evolved homo sapien, one would hope that the realization of what is in the author's head, rather than the color of it, is more important.

    God rest, Octavia Butler. You, and all those that have passed before you, will be sorely missed.

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