![]() ![]() I had been taking a creative writing class and my stories were so incredibly strange and otherworldly that a good friend suggested I read Parable of the Sower, Octavia’s tenth novel. ![]() Here, Oprah Daily shares an exclusive sneak peak of the forthcoming volume, just in time to say: Happy Birthday Octavia Butler. Now, she has written an ode to her told in poems and prose. Zoboi, who was a National Book Award finalist for her young adult novel American Street, is not just a Butler devotee, but was mentored by the writer. But the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author who explored themes of gender fluidity, climate change, authoritarianism, and the rise of Big Pharma is perhaps more widely read now than ever, and that phenomenon is destined to grow with the publication Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi, due out in January of 2022. She would have turned 73 today, June 22, had she not died suddenly in 2006 of a stroke. Octavia Butler was a visionary science fiction writer who predicted the ascension of an American politician who would rise to power with the slogan “Make America Great Again” in her 1998 novel Parable of the Talents. ![]()
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