Archive for: Octavia Butler

Alien Narratives

Alien Narratives

Gwyneth Jones’ White Queen and reading as an alien technology.

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White: Not the New Black

White: Not the New Black

Victoria Foyt’s Revealing Eden is unusually crass in its take on race, but its general methodology has a longstanding pedigree in sci-fi and fantasy.

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Alien Submission

Alien Submission

In Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis, humans tried empowerment. They built powerful bombs and more powerful bombs, and finally they all killed each other. Clearly, it’s time to try something else.

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