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Rest easily, Octavia Butler

Posted By colin On February 26, 2006 @ 4:34 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled

Seattle-based science fiction writer Octavia Butler ^[1] died Saturday ^[2] of what appears to have been a stroke.

Butler, 58, was a Nebula and James Tiptree-award winner, as well as the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, the first genre writer to be so honored. She was one of the first African-American women to make a real mark on the SF literary world. Butler released a new novel just last year, Fledgling ^[3], her first in several years.

Online tributes from other writers are pouring in: Steven Barnes ^[4], Neil Gaiman ^[5], and Cory Doctorow ^[6] are the ones I’ve seen so far….

EDIT: The Seattle P-I ran a lovely tribute ^[7] as well.

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[1] Octavia Butler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler

[2] died Saturday: http://www.sfwa.org/news/2006/obutler.htm

[3] Fledgling: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=1583226907%2526tag=ws%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/1583226907%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002

[4] Steven Barnes: http://darkush.blogspot.com/2006/02/octavia-butler-died-saturday.html

[5] Neil Gaiman: http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2006/02/octavia-butler.html

[6] Cory Doctorow: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/26/rip_octavia_butler_g.html

[7] tribute: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html?source=rss

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