A review by glaiza_echo
Octavia E. Butler by Gerry Canavan

4.0

'Butler’s creative and critical work demonstrates that science fiction was never really a straight, white, male genre, despite its pretensions to the contrary, blackness, womanhood, poverty, disability, and queerness were always there, under the surface, the genre’s hidden truth.'

This is an accessible academic read that delves into Octavia E. Butler’s influential science fiction work in addition to highlighting her writing process with references from her documents as preserved in The Huntington Archive: https://paperwanderer.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/octavia-e-butler-by-gerry-canavan/