Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. – Octavia Butler
The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. – Octavia Butler
The thing about science fiction is that its totally wide open. But its wide open in a conditional way. – Octavia Butler
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. Youll note theres no science in it. Its a kind of grim fantasy. – Octavia Butler
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. – Octavia Butler
Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers