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revdorothyl at 08:32pm on 27/02/2006
revdorothyl at 08:32pm on 27/02/2006This is the first chance I've had to reflect on the news I heard driving to work this afternoon, that science fiction author Octavia Butler had just died at the age of 58 (which doesn't seem old at all to me, now!) after falling in her own home!
I think it was May of 2003 when I met Octavia Butler face to face at a Sci Fi convention in Des Moines, and there learned for the first time that she was an ardent "Buffy" fan (she was eager to learn where I'd gotten my "Spike & Buffy" Valentine T-shirt). She seemed so full of life and energy and intelligence.
She, who was never afraid to tackle race and gender in her own fiction, appreciated the stereotype-twisting and sheer 'humanity' of Buffy and her human and non-human cohorts, it seemed to me.
A major talent has been taken from us far too soon. Her passing should be mourned, even if you've never read her fiction, just because she was a sister BtVS fan and a woman of strength and humor and courage.
I think it was May of 2003 when I met Octavia Butler face to face at a Sci Fi convention in Des Moines, and there learned for the first time that she was an ardent "Buffy" fan (she was eager to learn where I'd gotten my "Spike & Buffy" Valentine T-shirt). She seemed so full of life and energy and intelligence.
She, who was never afraid to tackle race and gender in her own fiction, appreciated the stereotype-twisting and sheer 'humanity' of Buffy and her human and non-human cohorts, it seemed to me.
A major talent has been taken from us far too soon. Her passing should be mourned, even if you've never read her fiction, just because she was a sister BtVS fan and a woman of strength and humor and courage.
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