Octavia Butler (1947-2006) broke new ground as a writer of science fiction. She expanded the genre by publishing some of the earliest examples of “Afrofuturism,” combining African history and folklore ...

Afrofuturism is an invocation of our creative ... These fantasies become self-expressed in multitudes, from Octavia Butler‘s grotesque premonitions of Black people’s heroic apocalypse survival ...

Popularized by Mark Dery in his 1993 essay “Black to the Future” [PDF], Afrofuturism is a movement ... As a shy kid, Octavia ...

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena ...