Just happened to be thinking about Octavia Butler.

[SusanCalvin]

I miss her so much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

[KamaAina]

1. I know someone who got to go through her archives!

[SusanCalvin]

2. Wow!

I didn't know before just now (reading Wikipedia) that she was asocial. Even before I knew that, even though I'm white, I identify with her and appreciate her so much.

[KamaAina]

3. And you hit my Wil Wheaton thread right when I hit this one!!

I'm white, too, as is the woman who introduced me to Octavia. I did not now she was asocial; I am Autistic. Might she have been?

[SusanCalvin]

4. Wouldn't be surprised - same spectrum.

I can do "social" successfully, I am told. It is a performance.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Octavia was a guest on "Hour 25" Scifi

Program on KPFK years ago. A very intelligent and articulate person the interviews were always enjoyable.

[SusanCalvin]

7. Is that a Pacifica station? Sounds like it.

So lucky to have one here.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Yes it is. It was a terrific radio show. Harlan Ellison

Even hosted it for a time.

Sadly KPFK isn't quite what it used to be.

[SusanCalvin]

10. Neither is KPFT. Neither is the world, for that matter.... nt

[uppityperson]

6. I've been rererereading her recently. She was quite the inspiration, worked very hard, wrote very w

well.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I have only read a very few of her works,

but what I've read has been amazing.

[CrispyQ]

11. I was looking through the sci fi section of my local library & her Parable books both had

'Staff Favorite' on them, so I checked them out. That library had a few of her Patternist series, but I had to go to another library to read them all. A few years ago I read "Kindred." I'll have to check out some of the other titles listed at your link. Thanks!