Comments on: Fascinating Facts About Octavia E. Butler

By: Nava Atlas

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:36:27 +0000

In reply to Kathi.

I agree, Kathi, her work is amazing. My favorite is Kindred, which is a standalone in her style, but so powerful. It’s funny you should mention Parables, I started to re-read the first one during the you-know-who administration and found it too eerily prescient, to use the same term you did. Maybe I’ll just move on to Parable of the Talents now!

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By: Kathi

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 22:25:27 +0000

Thank you for this article. Butler’s work is thought-provoking, and the themes and issues she explores linger long after the book is closed. It is also hard to real her Parables now without feeling a sense of prescience.
Her voice is an important one to celebrate.

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By: Nava Atlas

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:49:23 +0000

In reply to judith copithorne.

Hello Judith, thank you for your comment. Octavia Butler was indeed a brilliant writer. This particular post is intended to highlight lesser known facts about her, one of which is that she was the recipient of the MacArthur “genius” grant. There is a more thorough bio of her on the site, which delves more into her achievements: https://hademengcoffice.com/author-biography/octavia-butler/ I’ll make sure that link is more prominent in this post.

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By: judith copithorne

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 06:11:53 +0000

Octavia Butler was a brilliant writer. I wish that you had started your article with that because that is the most important thing about her writing. It is too bad that she had such a hard life and that she died so young. She had a great talent and I am sure she would have got even better had she lived longer.

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