Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:35 am**

I've read from a few different sources, Octavia Butler died over this last weekend in Seattle and she was 59.

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:42 pm**

I had always hoped Oprah would have embraced Octavia Butler's fiction, as she was one of the rare African-Americans writing in the sf genre. Alas, it never happened, and thus Butler didn't reach a much wider audience.