I totally agree with your assessment. I consider Octavia Butler one of the foremost practictioner of a new genre I call "Social Economic" fiction, or SE. SE is also the field I dabble in.
~rave! http://twitter.com/ravenadal http://theworldebon.blogspot.com --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Milton Davis <mv_media_...@...> wrote: > > I know plenty young black science fiction fans that credit Octavia Butler as > the beacon that led them to science fiction. I'm an old school science > fiction fan, raised on Assimov, Delany, Herbert and Ellision. I like Butler's > work, but I consider it more social science fiction. She deals more with > relationships and issues rather than the technical aspect of science fiction, > which we all know gets more attention. I think that's the reason her prose > seems to have special appeal to black female science fiction fans. I enjoyed > everything I've read by her but I can't say I'm a fan. She was a greater > writer than I'll probably ever be and got her respect among the sci/fi elite > if not the mainstream. > > --- On Wed, 6/24/09, B. Smith <daikaij...@...> wrote: > > > From: B. Smith <daikaij...@...> > Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler underrated in mainstream > sci-fi press? > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 1:19 AM > > > > > > > > > She's highly regarded but not given the same respect as the legendary hard > sci-fi types. Her work falls into the more literary side of the genre and in > some ways she was more highly regarded outside the genre. > > --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker013@ ...> > wrote: > > > > George, it's possible, but I see her lack of props as being more a matter > > of the mainstream SF press not knowing what the frell it's doing. IMO, > > they've become like the music industry, more interested in the flavor of > > the week than actual decent work. When I go to the bookstore and browse the > > SF/fantasy shelves, the stuff I see is so derivative as to be embarrassing. > > Nine times out of ten, I can figure out what the story inside the covers is > > solely by what pose the characters on the cover are striking. Shouldn't be > > that easy, even for a guy with my brain. > > > > > > > > > > > ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- > > > Subject : [scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler underrated in mainstream sci-fi > press? > > > Date : Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:10:06 -0700 (PDT) > > > From : George Arterberry <brotherfromhoward@ ...> > > > To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com > > > > > > I've rarely seen her represented in so-called mainstream press. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds > > >
