OCTAVIA BUTLER, who grew up in Pasadena and lived most of her life in Southern California, published her first science fiction story in 1971, at age 24, and built an increasingly influential career until her death in 2006, winning major science fiction awards and a MacArthur Fellowship. An African-American woman who pioneered in a historically […]
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