@npr Octavia Butler’s career started with a bad movie. When Butler – who is remembered as one of the greatest American science fiction writers of all time – watched the British sci-fi film “Devil Girl from Mars” at the age of 12, her first thought was, “Geez, I can write a better story than that.” And so she did. Throughout a very successful decades-long writing career, Butler combined history, science fiction, and fantasy to imagine a liberated future through a Black lens. Her alternate realiti

The Octavia Lab, named after the award-winning science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, is a do-it-yourself makerspace located inside the Los Angeles Public Library’s historic Central Library. Octavia Lab provides library cardholders free and unlimited access to state-of-the-art design, fabrication, preservation, and story-telling technologies. lapl.org/labs | Los Angeles Public Library

9.2K views · 152 reactions | Octavia Butler’s science fiction is experiencing a renaissance. Five adaptations of her work are currently in various stages of film and television production. The future she wrote about is now our present, and she saw it with astounding clarity. Read more about her life, work and vision here. https://nyti.ms/3tKvDCc | The New York Times | Facebook