Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Influential writer Octavia Butler's literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel ...

Octavia E. Butler has always been more than a writer. Her speculative worlds remain blueprints for how we might reimagine our future while reckoning with the flaws of the present. The California-born ...

For pioneering science fiction novelist Octavia E. Butler, writing was more than a profession. It was a form of survival, resistance and reflection. In “Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of ...

“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.” These words by Octavia E. Butler might provide us with a ...

When Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred was assigned to me in a university literature course, I didn’t know what I was in for. Assigned books can be like wading into murky waters—you’re never sure if ...

Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her.

Reimagining rocket science through Octavia Butler’s vision of space and survival. American Artist reimagines the history of rocket science through the lens of Octavia Butler, blending speculative ...

"Positive Obsession" is a beautiful biography of Butler that not only explores her work, but also the key historical and social moments that shaped it — and the literary styles Butler herself inspired ...

Ayana Jamieson has read every piece of Octavia Butler’s work that she has been able to get her hands on. Of course, she has read Butler’s published and unpublished novels, but Jamieson has also sifted ...

Influential writer Octavia Butler’s literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of “Parable of the Talents,” originally published as a novel ...