Friday, March 03, 2006
oil-and-water
She once described herself as "a pessimist, a feminist always, a Black, a quiet egoist, a former Baptist, and an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive." Octavia Butler, black woman science fiction writer, died recently - Tyler Cowen writes an obituary.
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4 comments:
beautiful writing Monica .. especially liked your RDB review.
cheers!
hey, thanks for this momo.
the 'left hand of darkness' and much else of the sci fi i admire seems to plae in front of Octavia Butler's pol-sci-fi
Monica, first time here. You write of interesting stuff.
Anand, blasphemy! My sci-fi days are a little behind me, but back when it was a part of my M.A., I'd probably have lasered for a statement like that. Luckily for you, I'm nicer these days :-)
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