Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
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Octavia's Journey to Writing
In 1979 Kindred was published, seen as one of her breakthrough novels. Another big hit was Parable of the Sower, published in 1993. It portrays a hellish world where society has fallen apart and people are pitted against each other. Here's Octavia on National Public Radio reading from it.
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