Celebrating Octavia

[spitkitten]

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Of all the writers in the world that I would have liked to have known, Octavia E. Butler tops my list for a hundred different reasons.  I will be in attendance at the Carl Brandon party celebrating her deserved induction into the Hall of Fame. I hope you’ll join me and spread

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[greytweed]

I am very much looking forward to this. Octavia was one of the authors I was so excited to meet (and have lunch with) that I almost couldn't talk. She was also one of the few women I knew who was taller than I am---a true Amazon. I miss her badly.