"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E.
Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an
alien in American society and among science fiction
writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent
readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction.
Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of
Butler's career. Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan
tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and
real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her
triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler
first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within,
responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon.
The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure
shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative
urge into brilliant works of fiction.
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