Octavia Butler passed away

[salvorhardin]

Seattle science fiction author Octavia Butler dies at 58
By JOHN MARSHALL
P-I BOOK CRITIC

Her father was a shoeshine man who died when she was a child, her mother was a maid who brought her along on jobs, yet Octavia Butler rose from these humble beginnings to become one of the country’s leading writers – a female African American pioneer in the white, male domain of science fiction.

Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park. The reclusive writer, who moved to Seattle in 1999 from her native Southern California, was a giant in stature (she reached 6 foot by age 15) and in accomplishment.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html

David Brin had some nice words too: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/02/octavia-butler-keep-stirring-our-souls.html

[phantom power]

1. That's a shame. I liked her "oankali" books.