Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler? - Ayana Jamieson and Moya Bailey
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Daniel
Amnesty.
If you folk want to learn about her, I strongly recommend that short story.
It woke in me so many emotions and feelings that I can't stop thinking about it. Perhaps I'm wrong and this recommendation will fall short from your expectations.
But, since you are here reading these words, I thing you'll be trapped as I was by this story. And you will read it and re-read it with the same pleasure and dread as I did.
Cheers!
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Amnesty.
If you folk want to learn about her, I strongly recommend that short story.
It woke in me so many emotions and feelings that I can't stop thinking about it. Perhaps I'm wrong and this recommendation will fall short from your expectations.
But, since you are here reading these words, I thing you'll be trapped as I was by this story. And you will read it and re-read it with the same pleasure and dread as I did.
Cheers!
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Potato
I read Clay's Ark for a class a few months back, it's a story about humans slowly losing their humanity to an infectious parasite. I have never had a more unpleasant literary experience, and I mean that in the best way possible. That story was terrifying! Psychological horror honed to surgical precision! I learned a lot from Octavia Butler's work.
. but I don't think I'll be reading any more all that soon. I like to sleep at night!
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I read Clay's Ark for a class a few months back, it's a story about humans slowly losing their humanity to an infectious parasite. I have never had a more unpleasant literary experience, and I mean that in the best way possible. That story was terrifying! Psychological horror honed to surgical precision! I learned a lot from Octavia Butler's work.
. but I don't think I'll be reading any more all that soon. I like to sleep at night!
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Christian
The animations alone made me tear up; fantastic job. Butler was one of the earliest influences in my life towards becoming a bibliophile in general. Parable of the Sower was my first introduction to her world view. Kindred was a follow up. Both seemed as if they were written by entirely different authors. Both have a place in my heart.
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The animations alone made me tear up; fantastic job. Butler was one of the earliest influences in my life towards becoming a bibliophile in general. Parable of the Sower was my first introduction to her world view. Kindred was a follow up. Both seemed as if they were written by entirely different authors. Both have a place in my heart.
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torturedparadox
Lilith's Brood or, as I knew it, Xenogenesis, was my favorite book in high school. I read it so much that I had to have it rebound (it's a hardback) and it's still one of my all-time favorites. Butler was an amazing writer, and her works should be required reading in school.
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Lilith's Brood or, as I knew it, Xenogenesis, was my favorite book in high school. I read it so much that I had to have it rebound (it's a hardback) and it's still one of my all-time favorites. Butler was an amazing writer, and her works should be required reading in school.
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Vinay
The first one is clearly an allegory for African Americans deciding whether to breed with people of other colour or not-very communal-minded in my opinion. Of course, the identity politics-championing Marxists of today would hail such narrow visions!
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The first one is clearly an allegory for African Americans deciding whether to breed with people of other colour or not-very communal-minded in my opinion. Of course, the identity politics-championing Marxists of today would hail such narrow visions!
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Jason
Right now Mexico is collapsing into a failed state. It's going to end up like Somalia; a multiple army civil war. I believe God made Donald Trump President so he could build the Wall to stop the coming tsunamis of refugees.
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Right now Mexico is collapsing into a failed state. It's going to end up like Somalia; a multiple army civil war. I believe God made Donald Trump President so he could build the Wall to stop the coming tsunamis of refugees.
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Sarat
She's truly amazing. If this video is quoting form Earthseed then I feel it should say the quartet: All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
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She's truly amazing. If this video is quoting form Earthseed then I feel it should say the quartet: All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
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Marguerite
To what if shes an actual time traveler and shes sorting us to prepare for these events in the future by reading her books and doing what they did or learning from their mistakes
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To what if shes an actual time traveler and shes sorting us to prepare for these events in the future by reading her books and doing what they did or learning from their mistakes
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Mat
So I just finished reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and it was phenomenal why haven't I heard of her before? I will continue with more from her. Such an excellent writer.
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So I just finished reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and it was phenomenal why haven't I heard of her before? I will continue with more from her. Such an excellent writer.
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El
Ive havent got a chance to read her work yet, but Ive heard about her from watching a documentary about Harlan Ellison. They briefly touched on her work which sounded interesting.
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Ive havent got a chance to read her work yet, but Ive heard about her from watching a documentary about Harlan Ellison. They briefly touched on her work which sounded interesting.
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