Tag Archives: Octavia Butler
Making their mark, far from home
The NASA New Horizons Pluto fly-by team proposed naming a dozen features on Charon, the largest of Pluto’s 5 moons, and those names, now approved by the International Astronomical Union, will be very familiar to fans of science fiction, reports Matt Williams on Universe Today. Beamer favorite Octavia Butler is recognized with her own peak, …
Love means never having to say … I’m hungry
With winter’s deep chills settling in, the Beamers settled down to wrestle with Octavia Butler’s final work, Fledgling, the story of a young, amnesiac vampire who has to rebuild her life after her family (or families) are slain. Taking a first-person perspective, the novel effectively drops the reader into a world and a society that …
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