Celebrating the recent swell of Butler scholarship based on the Huntington’s archive and renewed interest in the published corpus, Canavan encourages further scholarship and reading: "We’ve still only scratched the surface of what’s contained in the archive there’s still so much more to explore." Lilith Acadia (co-editor with Ji Hyun Lee of Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturistic Visions, forthcoming from Lexington Books) interviewed Canavan about religion in Butler's corpus, and is sharing the interview with the goal of encouraging such emerging work. “She’s truly one of the great geniuses of the genre, with novels that are as enthralling now as they were when they were written,” observes Gerry Canavan, author of the “biocritical” intellectual biography, Octavia E. The first science fiction author to be named a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Fellow, she won many awards-including two Hugos-despite a relatively small output due to her exhaustively iterative drafting process and perfectionistic standards for the writing she would publish. Butler is an eminent and influential figure in 20th century US science fiction.
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