For Detroit News, Hillel Italie speaks to writers like N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okarafor about Octavia Butler’s undeniable influence on a generation of thinkers and artists. “[Butler] seems to have seen the real future coming in a way few other writers did,” says Gerry Caravan, associate professor at Marquette University who is co-editing Butler’s work for the Library of America. “It’s hard not to read the books and think ‘How did she know?’”
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