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

Sat Sep 17, 2016, 09:33 PM

Sep 2016

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?

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Just happened to be thinking about Octavia Butler. [View all] SusanCalvin Sep 2016 OP

I know someone who got to go through her archives! KamaAina Sep 2016 #1

Wow! SusanCalvin Sep 2016 #2

And you hit my Wil Wheaton thread right when I hit this one!! KamaAina Sep 2016 #3

Wouldn't be surprised - same spectrum. SusanCalvin Sep 2016 #4

Octavia was a guest on "Hour 25" Scifi The_Casual_Observer Sep 2016 #5

Is that a Pacifica station? Sounds like it. SusanCalvin Sep 2016 #7

Yes it is. It was a terrific radio show. Harlan Ellison The_Casual_Observer Sep 2016 #8

Neither is KPFT. Neither is the world, for that matter.... nt SusanCalvin Sep 2016 #10

I have only read a very few of her works, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2016 #9