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2021-03-09 -PC Follies
Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler
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Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-09 01:50|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 I found her stories unreadable. More fantasy than sci-fi.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2021-03-09 02:31||   2021-03-09 02:31|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Now, now, it's not easy to find an African-American SF author.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 02:51||   2021-03-09 02:51|| Front Page Top

#3 So, math and science are inherently racist, but science fiction is not. Uh, yeah, o.k., got it.
Posted by Clem 2021-03-09 04:37||   2021-03-09 04:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Get that THING out of my rock garden, Alien!

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Clunk4123 2021-03-09 04:49||   2021-03-09 04:49|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 And it's ain't sexist or transphobic either.🤣
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 05:55||   2021-03-09 05:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Next landing site on the Moon should be the Hazel Meade Stone Spaceport.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-03-09 07:17||   2021-03-09 07:17|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Next landing on the Moon will be Chinese.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 07:26||   2021-03-09 07:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Not a manned landing. OK, not a LIVE landing of people.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-03-09 07:41||   2021-03-09 07:41|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Than it should be "Mike's landing"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 07:45||   2021-03-09 07:45|| Front Page Top

#10 If you're naming anything on Mars for SF authors, there damn well better be a Bradbury Landing.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-09 08:37||   2021-03-09 08:37|| Front Page Top

#11 ^E.R.B? Leigh Brackett?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 08:39||   2021-03-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Never heard of her...
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-03-09 09:01||   2021-03-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Kind of like Lawrence Dunbar?
Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-03-09 09:02||   2021-03-09 09:02|| Front Page Top

#14 Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became in 1995 the first, and only, as of 2021, science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

Patternist series

Patternmaster (Doubleday, 1976)
Mind of My Mind (Doubleday, 1977)
Survivor (Doubleday, 1978)
Wild Seed (Doubleday, 1980)
Clay's Ark (St. Martin's Press, 1984)
Seed to Harvest (Grand Central Publishing 2007; omnibus excluding Survivor)
Xenogenesis series

Dawn (Warner, 1987)
Adulthood Rites (Warner, 1988)
Imago (Warner, 1989)
Xenogenesis (Guild America Books, 1989) (an omnibus edition of Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago)
Lilith's Brood (Warner, 2000) (another omnibus edition of Dawn, Adulthood Rites, & Imago)
Parable series (also called the Earthseed series)

Parable of the Sower (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1993)
Parable of the Talents (Seven Stories Press, 1998)
Standalone novels
Kindred (Doubleday, 1979)
Fledgling (Seven Stories Press, 2005)
Short story collections
Bloodchild and Other Stories (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1995; Seven Stories Press, 2005 including "Amnesty" and "The Book of Martha")
Unexpected Stories (2014, including "A Necessary Being" and "Childfinder")
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 10:02||   2021-03-09 10:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Now, now, it's not easy to find an African-American SF author.

Guess Samuel Delany wouldn't take the call.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-03-09 10:14||   2021-03-09 10:14|| Front Page Top

#16 If she’s dead, she won’t be writing anything new, is that right? I can live with that.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-09 10:32||   2021-03-09 10:32|| Front Page Top

#17 #12 Male.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 10:49||   2021-03-09 10:49|| Front Page Top

#18 RAY BRADBURY, G(r)om! I had no idea you were a Philistine.
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-09 15:03||   2021-03-09 15:03|| Front Page Top

#19 #18 I had no idea you were a Philistine.

I just meant my vote goes to E.R.B (John Carter of Mars) or Leigh Brackett (The Road to Sinharat) before Bradbury.

Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is what I'd chose for the current Earth situation.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-09 15:21||   2021-03-09 15:21|| Front Page Top

#20 If we're naming things after Wakandan authors, can we send all our the Wakandans to Mars and give them a colony there?
Posted by Herb Untervehr4448 2021-03-09 15:55||   2021-03-09 15:55|| Front Page Top

#21 
yes, and we'll finally be able to give'm the reparations promised, 40 acres and a mule.

Reperations, never specified, when or where.
Posted by Nero Hatfield3627 2021-03-09 16:02||   2021-03-09 16:02|| Front Page Top

#22 Why, yes, looking at bookcase, I have three of her earliest paperbacks. She started becoming weirder and more strident so I lost any interest in her works.... Kind of like Marion Zimmer Bradley...
Posted by magpie 2021-03-09 17:11||   2021-03-09 17:11|| Front Page Top

#23 MZB always was kind of weird. I think I grew out of her books when I was 15 or so...
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-03-09 19:21||   2021-03-09 19:21|| Front Page Top

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