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Read an excerpt of Octavia Butler’s "Kindred," now a graphic novel.

The Huntington is launching the first major exhibition on the life and work of award-winning science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), whose literary archive resides here. She was the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur "genius" award and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition writing in that genre.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins missed what made Octavia Butler’s book such a compelling philosophical story.

Octavia E. Butler was a world renowned African-American science fiction novelist and the first African-American woman to gain popularity and critical acclaim as a major science fiction writer. Her...

Nisi Shawl, a local writer and friend of the late Octavia Butler, reviews Butler's essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future" and reminisces on their late friend.

Octavia Butler's novel Kindred is coming to the small screen.

Abby Aguirre writes about Octavia Butler’s “Parable” science-fiction books that predicted Donald Trumpov.

Hello, Germs, and welcome back to another edition of Belle Lettres! For this month, we will be spotlighting Octavia Butler. Butler was an American science fiction author who broke into a world that was mostly dominated by white male writers. Her widely known works are Kindred and her Patternist series. She was also the first science fiction […]

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