Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338)

Über den Autor

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) was one of the foremost science fiction writers of her generation, the winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards for a body of work that includes such landmark novels as Kindred and The Parable of the Sower. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.Gerry Canavan is an associate professor in the English Department at Marquette University. An editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television, he has also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (2015) and The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (2019). His first monograph, Octavia E. Butler, appeared in 2016 in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series at University of Illinois Press.Nisi Shawl is a science fiction writer, editor, and journalist. Her debut novel Everfair was a 2016 Nebula finalist. A friend of Octavia Butler, she edited Bloodchildren: Stories by the Octavia E. Butler Scholars (2013) and co-edited Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler (2013).Author Hometown: Lake Forest Park, WA