On Friday, April 12, at the Wayward Coffeehouse in Seattle, Washington, Pacific Northwest writers Vonda N. McIntyre, Nisi Shawl, Dennis Y. Ginoza, Erik Owomoyela, Caren Gussoff, and Rashida Smith will read work inspired by their relationships with Octavia Butler in celebration of her legacy.
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In this video to help celebrate Women’s History Month, Ellen Datlow, Elizabeth Hand, Patrica Wrede, and N.K. Jemisin (speaking about the late Octavia Butler), talk about being women writers, writing female characters, and the female role models they look up to.
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In this video, N.K. Jemisin talks about the impact and significance of Octavia E. Butler’s classic science fiction novel Dawn, the first novel of the Xenogenesis trilogy (also known as Lilith’s Brood, which also is comprised of Adulthood Rites and Imago), which was first published 25 years ago.
In case you haven’t read it, here’s what it’s about:
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.
The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Octavia E. Butler including rare images from the author’s estate.
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The Science Fiction Museum and SF Hall of Fame announced that this year’s Hall of Fame inductees:
- Octavia E. Butler
- Roger Zelazny
- Douglas Trumbull
- Richard Matheson
Winners were selected by a jury cosnisting of
Robin Wayne Bailey, Gavin Grant, Leslie Howle, Therese Littleton, George R.R. Martin, Brooks Peck, Robert Silverberg, Frank Wu. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place June 26 at Seattle’s Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum as part of the Science Fiction Awards Weekend.
[via Small Beer Press and SciFi Wire]
