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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 12:35 AM

    Thank you Karen

    Thank you Karen for a terrific elegy for Octavia. I will always be grateful for the way she overcame her shyness to do the Guest of Honour things at Readercon in 2002, to speak with grave and prophetic deliberation. And even more than that I am grateful for her work. (And for your own, which is also in my top 10, although I want to argue with the concept of having to pick 10, but still. Thank you.)

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