When young Octavia E Butler began immersing herself at the library, she found that she—a black woman—was never reflected in the stories she read. And so she wrote, her routine waking her at 2am before the day jobs that put food on the table. She wrote science fiction, a genre where she was provided the freedom to write detailed social criticism, historical commentary, and enfranchise those usually seen as ‘others’ in past, present, and future narratives. And she wrote well, winning a laundry list of awards, the first MacArthur Grant given to a science fiction author, and a mountain named after her on a moon of Pluto (yes. seriously.). As she put it: she wrote herself in.
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