And when critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” in 1994, Butler was one of the first examples he cited of Black artists transposing their own history and aesthetic onto an imagined future.īut after her death in 2006-from a fall outside her home near Seattle, at just 58-Butler’s massive influence fell out of step with her latter-day footprint. She was the first science fiction author of any gender or race to win a so-called genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Butler was the first Black woman to win a Hugo or a Nebula, two of her field’s highest honors. The science fiction writer Octavia Butler was a pioneer in her time.
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