Octavia Butler encomium

2 comments on “Octavia Butler encomium”

1. carol says:
   February 28th, 2006 at 3:00 pm

   I’m sitting at my desk at work surfing for books for my women’s bookclub and I ran across your onesentence entry that just tore a hole in my heart. Octavia Butler’s book Wild Seed has haunted me for over twenty years. I have tracked donw and read every book and short story she has ever written. I’m a reader, not a writer, and I am finding trouble coming up with the words. She could say so much with so few words. I did not know she was African-American at first, and as a white woman she touched a universal chord that helped me to better understand others and the complexity of oppression. I just bought her latest book and I am so sad to think it will be er alst.

2. George says:
   February 28th, 2006 at 5:27 pm

   I’m sorry you learned of it this way. I have quite a number of friends shocked and upset. She was a hero to many of us. One of the greats.

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