Modern Masters of Science Fiction: Octavia E. Butler (Paperback)

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Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press

Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler s career. Drawing on Butler s personal papers Canavan tracks the false starts abandoned drafts tireless rewrites and real-life obstacles that fed Butler s frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within responding to and reacting against the genre s particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes unconventional ideas and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction. -- Publisher s description. I began writing about power because I had so little Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler s life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent readership and acclaim both inside and outside science fiction. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler s career. Drawing on Butler s personal papers Canavan tracks the false starts abandoned drafts tireless rewrites and real-life obstacles that fed Butler s frustrations and launched her triumphs. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within responding to and reacting against the genre s particular canon. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes unconventional ideas and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction.