Ready to Go Off
Jenny Turner, 18 February 2021
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
by Lynell George.
Angel City, 176 pp., $30, November 2020,978 1 62640 063 4 Show More
by Lynell George.
Angel City, 176 pp., $30, November 2020,
‘Kindred’, Fledgling’, Collected Stories’
by Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl.
Library of America, 790 pp., $31.50, January 2021,978 1 59853 675 1 Show More
by Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl.
Library of America, 790 pp., $31.50, January 2021,
“... Butler has in the meantime been added to the Library of America canon, under the editorship of Nisi Shawl, previously the co-editor, with Rebecca Holden, of Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices and Octavia E. Butler (2013); and Canavan, who is white, male, an academic scholar of science fiction, and previously published ... ”