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Winter Book Club: Octavia Butler’s Visionary Fiction

Octavia Butler gave us a new kind of science fiction: not only as one of the first writers to use history to talk about the future, and not only as one of the first Black women to do it, but by sending, along with her warnings, a message of hope, survival, persistence, and repair.

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Winter Book Club: Octavia Butler’s Visionary Fiction

January 1, 20263:10 AM ET

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Winter Book Club: Octavia Butler’s Visionary Fiction

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