Oh, there's no doubt that she will. She was such a groundbreaker in science fiction (African American female in a white male genre) that it's hard to grasp just what she did, as well as what she left behind. The only other sci-fi writers in her caliber and her sex is Atwood and LeGuin (and Butler was the youngest of the three).
A point of trivia, she lived a few miles from my house.
Another point of trivia: Tamora Pierce announced that she is going to be creating a superhero for one of the major comic lines. I would have loved to have seen what Butler could have done in the genre. Like Adams, Butler's death comes as she was getting back into writing again.
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john, sorry for the loss. i'm sure her words live on and will continue to inspire your writing now and in the future. does she? :)
Oh, there's no doubt that she will. She was such a groundbreaker in science fiction (African American female in a white male genre) that it's hard to grasp just what she did, as well as what she left behind. The only other sci-fi writers in her caliber and her sex is Atwood and LeGuin (and Butler was the youngest of the three).
A point of trivia, she lived a few miles from my house.
Another point of trivia: Tamora Pierce announced that she is going to be creating a superhero for one of the major comic lines. I would have loved to have seen what Butler could have done in the genre. Like Adams, Butler's death comes as she was getting back into writing again.
Argh. I almost forgot. What's the story in Manila?
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