Ready to Go Off
Jenny Turner, 18 February 2021
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
by Lynell George.
Angel City, 176 pp., $30, November 2020,978 1 62640 063 4 Show More
by Lynell George.
Angel City, 176 pp., $30, November 2020,
‘Kindred’, Fledgling’, Collected Stories’
by Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl.
Library of America, 790 pp., $31.50, January 2021,978 1 59853 675 1 Show More
by Octavia E. Butler, edited by Gerry Canavan and Nisi Shawl.
Library of America, 790 pp., $31.50, January 2021,
“... petering out after twenty or thirty pages, others after just two or three’, in the words of Gerry Canavan, who in 2013 became the first scholar to open them. Butler had been reading James Lovelock and thinking about what would happen if humans migrated to other worlds while continuing to be ‘part of an earth organism in some literal ... ”
