Well. What a time to be reading #ParableOfTheSower by #OctaviaButler for the first time.

For International Women's Day I feel it is my responsibility to make sure you are aware of the giants of #SpeculativeFiction #UrsulaLeguin and #OctaviaButler

I'm a voracious reader and I know exactly why I barely/never heard about them until I was nearly 50 - it rhymes with matriarchy.

As an admitted Sean-come-lately, now that I finished my first Octavia Butler book (Parable of the Sower), I hit the bookstore to get Parable of the Talents. Sold out

So I was like: what else ya got? Annnnd …. I’m goin all in on Octavia

#OctaviaButler #books #BlackMastodon

This article has given me a fantastic reading list for 2023

https://novaramedia.com/2022/12/26/socialists-in-2023-read-more-fiction/

#books #bookstodon #reading #SpeculativeFiction #scifi #OctaviaButler #KimStanleyRobinson #CapitalistRealism #fiction

@piranesi @bookstodon welcome! I also rarely spoke in the other place, but I find people are more open to forming new connections here. Liberal use of hashtags really helps.

I've been on a real #OctaviaButler binge recently. Have you read her? So creative.

Merry Christmas!

I want to read Parable of the Sower by #OctaviaButler, but Libby doesn't have it 😭 I read Kindred and it was honestly one of the best books I ever read. It was about time travel, to, but to the past instead (PoS is to the future). I highly recommend it, but beware there is some gore on the plantation... Kindred changed the way I look at the world forever. So good!
#bookrecs #Vlogbrothers #Nerdfighter #DFTBA

@smaran I am unlikely to watch it. It just doesn't feel right to take #OctaviaButler out of the text.

The Kindred TV series premiered today! Exciting times. #octaviabutler #afrofuturism #kindred

The Visions of Octavia Butler on the 75th anniversary of her birth. #scifi #OctaviaButler https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/arts/octavia-butler-vision-kindred.html

@dejoslin #OctaviaButler #SherriSTepper #SarahKendzior #CatValente #NealStephenson #MiraGrant #SeannanMcGuire

A beautiful article about #OctaviaButler and her legacy:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/arts/octavia-butler-vision-kindred.html

A beautiful tribute to #OctaviaButler in #NYT.

From her journals:

I will buy a beautiful home in an excellent neighborhood.

I will help poor Black youngsters broaden their horizons.

I will travel whenever and wherever in the world that I choose.

My books will be read by millions of people!

So be it! See to it!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/arts/octavia-butler-vision-kindred.html

Now that I'm happily settled into a server I see myself staying on long-term (Humanities Commons), I thought I would finally write an #introduction.

I'm Smaran Dayal, currently an Assistant Prof. of #Literature at #Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

I recently got my #PhD in #ComparativeLiterature from #NYU. My PhD dissertation, which I'm now working into a book was a study of literary #Afrofuturism, in particular the novels of #SamuelDelany and #OctaviaButler.

Along with Ulrich Baer, during the first year of the pandemic, I co-edited an anthology of American literature titled Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts.

My primary research interests are #GlobalAnglophone and #AfricanAmerican literature, #postcolonial literary studies, #queertheory and #queerliterature, and, centrally, #sciencefiction studies.

Lovely to (re)connect with you all here!

#TwitterMigration #AcademicTwitter #AcademicMastodon #LitStudies #litodons #litaphants