Thursday, June 3, 2010
Dear Sci-Fi and Anime Fans,
The inspiration for my Sci-Fi Novel came from a dream of being one of the characters, Mike, and from reading one of the best Sci-Fi novelist.....
Octavia Butler.
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. Since her father Laurice, a shoeshiner, died when she was a baby, Butler was raised by her grandmother and her mother (Octavia M. Butler) who worked as a maid in order to support the family. Butler grew up in a struggling, racially mixed neighborhood. According to the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Butler was "an introspective, only child in a strict Baptist household" and "was drawn early to magazines such as Amazing, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Galaxy and soon began reading all the science fiction classics."
She described herself as "comfortably asocial—a hermit in the middle of Seattle—a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." Themes of both racial and sexual ambiguity are apparent throughout her work.
This woman's series of Sci-Fi novels push the envelope of creativity in this 'category'. In the event that you have never read her books, I urge you to read them!!!!
This book in particular did it for me:
These are some hot titles:
Shows like 'V', '4400' and 'Heroes' have got nothing on Octavia's creativity!!!!
Check them out....
RENPET SCI-FI
'THE YEAR IN SCI-FI'
The inspiration for my Sci-Fi Novel came from a dream of being one of the characters, Mike, and from reading one of the best Sci-Fi novelist.....
Octavia Butler.
Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Butler was born and raised in Pasadena, California. Since her father Laurice, a shoeshiner, died when she was a baby, Butler was raised by her grandmother and her mother (Octavia M. Butler) who worked as a maid in order to support the family. Butler grew up in a struggling, racially mixed neighborhood. According to the Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Butler was "an introspective, only child in a strict Baptist household" and "was drawn early to magazines such as Amazing, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Galaxy and soon began reading all the science fiction classics."
She described herself as "comfortably asocial—a hermit in the middle of Seattle—a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." Themes of both racial and sexual ambiguity are apparent throughout her work.
This woman's series of Sci-Fi novels push the envelope of creativity in this 'category'. In the event that you have never read her books, I urge you to read them!!!!
This book in particular did it for me:
These are some hot titles:
Shows like 'V', '4400' and 'Heroes' have got nothing on Octavia's creativity!!!!
Check them out....
RENPET SCI-FI
'THE YEAR IN SCI-FI'
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