"Science fiction novelist Octavia Butler wrote of future worlds and isolation, themes familiar to her. Butler told The New York Times in 2000 that she didn't see characters like herself in the sci-fi she read as a child, so when she became a writer, she wrote herself into the story. The onetime MacArthur ""genius"" Fellow died in 2006."
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