OK I know I am late, but please forgive, I did not know you were an author.
--Lavender
From: Milton Davis
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:38 PM
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler underrated in mainstream sci-fi
press?
I got a bit of advice from a writer friend of mine.He told me my audience
was anyone who reads. He told me don't tell them my book is either science
fiction or fantasy, just tell them what it's about. Get them into the story,
not the genre. It's worked pretty well so far.
--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Reece Jennings <mcjennings...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Reece Jennings <mcjennings...@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler underrated in
mainstream sci-fi press?
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 7:36 PM
It might be a combination of all of that, Milton. Yes, Black Women
will set up book
clubs, and discuss books, etc. But when I mention Sci-Fi to most Black
Women, and
even try to get the to read some of Ms. Butler's books, they tend to
pre-judge and reject
without looking. So I keep it to myself...except here, of course.. I
think a lot of women are
cutting off a vast expanse of great reading by pre-judging SF.
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From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com]
On Behalf Of Milton Davis
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:38 PM
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler underrated in
mainstream sci-fi press?
I know a lot a black male fans of Butler. I just seems in my
experience most of her fans I've met were black females. But then again that
might be because black females read a lot more than we brothers.
--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ lycos.com>
wrote:
From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ lycos.com>
Subject: RE: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler underrated in
mainstream sci-fi press?
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 4:37 PM
That comprises a graduating class of considerable note.
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underrated in mainstream sci-fi press?
Date : Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:22:52 -0400
From : "Reece Jennings" <mcjennings124@ yahoo.com>
To : <scifino...@yahoogro ups.com>
I love her. She's my favorite because of the social
aspect of her writing.
I've been a Black Male all say (peeking to make sure!)
Of course, we are both 1947 Cancerians, so that might
have something to do
with it! :o)
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From: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@
yahoogroups. com] On
Behalf Of Milton Davis
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:32 AM
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler
underrated in mainstream
sci-fi press?
I know plenty young black science fiction fans that
credit Octavia Butler as
the beacon that led them to science fiction. I'm an old
school science
fiction fan, raised on Assimov, Delany, Herbert and
Ellision. I like
Butler's work, but I consider it more social science
fiction. She deals more
with relationships and issues rather than the technical
aspect of science
fiction, which we all know gets more attention. I think
that's the reason
her prose seems to have special appeal to black female
science fiction fans.
I enjoyed everything I've read by her but I can't say
I'm a fan. She was a
greater writer than I'll probably ever be and got her
respect among the
sci/fi elite if not the mainstream.
--- On Wed, 6/24/09, B. Smith wrote:
From: B. Smith
Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] Is Octavia Butler
underrated in mainstream
sci-fi press?
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 1:19 AM
She's highly regarded but not given the same respect as
the legendary hard
sci-fi types. Her work falls into the more literary
side of the genre and in
some ways she was more highly regarded outside the
genre.
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ups.com, "Martin Baxter" wrote:
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> George, it's possible, but I see her lack of props as
being more a matter
of the mainstream SF press not knowing what the frell
it's doing. IMO,
they've become like the music industry, more interested
in the flavor of the
week than actual decent work. When I go to the
bookstore and browse the
SF/fantasy shelves, the stuff I see is so derivative as
to be embarrassing.
Nine times out of ten, I can figure out what the story
inside the covers is
solely by what pose the characters on the cover are
striking. Shouldn't be
that easy, even for a guy with my brain.
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From : George Arterberry
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To : scifino...@yahoogro
ups.com
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> I've rarely seen her represented in so-called
mainstream press.
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> http://www.youtube. com/watch?
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http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds
People may lie, but the evidence rarely does.
