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Books

Five Books About

Five Books Where Time Can’t Be Trusted

By Casey Scieszka

March 25, 2026

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Women in SFF

Women Have Always Written SFF — But It Wasn’t Always Easy to Find

By James Davis Nicoll

August 13, 2025

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Five Books

Five Science Fiction Books Told in Epistolary Style

By Lorna Wallace

July 16, 2025

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Backlist Bonanza

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Black Vampires

By Alex Brown

May 7, 2025

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Kindred Adaptation Falls Short of Octavia Butler’s Original Novel

By Alex Brown

December 14, 2022

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Science Fiction

Five Speculative Visions of a Future America

By James Davis Nicoll

July 14, 2021

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Events

Celebrate Octavia Butler’s Birthday Tomorrow With the Carl Brandon Society

By Andrew Liptak

June 21, 2021

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news

The Huntington Awards Debut Octavia E. Butler Fellowship to Alyssa Collins

By Andrew Liptak

April 20, 2021

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news

The Huntington Announces Octavia E. Butler Fellowship

By Stubby the Rocket

August 5, 2020

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Octavia E. Butler

An Earth(seed) Day Parable: Livestream an Operatic Version of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

By Deborah Williams

April 22, 2020

Portraying Homelessness in Science-Fiction and Fantasy

Featured Essays

Social issues

Confronting the Default: Portraying Homelessness in Science Fiction and Fantasy

By Steve Toase

April 15, 2020

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afrofuturism

Princess Weekes Teaches Afrofuturism 101 in a New Episode of It’s Lit!

By Stubby the Rocket

March 20, 2020

“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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