![]() ![]() The below are simply missives from a few writers and artists whom I found discussing the great Octavia Butler’s influence-on their own work and otherwise-at length, to help us consider the lasting good she’s done for literature. That list might actually be infinite, and at least also includes Wayétu Moore, Rivers Solomon, Sarah Pinsker, Nalo Hopkinson, Lester Spence, Valjeanne Jeffers, K. Of course, the writers quoted below are not the only ones to love or be influenced by Butler-not by far. Not surprisingly, this includes many of the best writers of SF, fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror working today, and so to celebrate Butler’s birthday, I’ve collected a few of their thoughts on her influence. She died in 2006-much too young, at only 58-already a certified genius who had a profound impact on many readers and writers across the world. Tomorrow, June 22, would have been legendary SF novelist and short story writer Octavia Butler’s 72nd birthday. ![]()
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