![]() ![]() ![]() Set in time periods ranging from the historical past to the distant future, Ms. "I'm black, I'm solitary, I've always been an outsider," The Los Angeles Times quoted Ms. ![]() But in interviews and in her work itself she left no doubt that her background equipped her spectacularly well to portray life in hostile dystopias where the odds of survival can be almost insurmountable. Butler's career, the news media made much of the fact that she was an African-American woman writing science fiction, traditionally a white male bastion. Butler received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, science fiction's highest honors-the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award-and numerous other literary awards.Īccording to her New York Times obituary, throughout Ms. Butler is the author of eleven novels, including Kindred, Dawn, Parable of the Sower, and, most recently, Fledgling (2005), and one collection of short fiction, Bloodchild. This event is co-sponsored by Seven Stories Press Butler with reminiscence, music and readings from her work. Delany and special musical guests will honor Ms. Publisher Dan Simon, actor Avery Brooks, publisher and editor Max Rodriguez, writer Harlan Ellison, Professor Sandra Govan, literary agent Merrilee Heifetz, poet Sonia Sanchez, writer Samuel R. Butler, who died in February, 2006, will gather to pay tribute to this internationally known science fiction writer whose evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human. ![]()
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