{"id":772,"date":"2006-02-27T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2006-02-27T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T19:28:00","slug":"a-time-for-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/a-time-for-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"A time for silence*"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Science-fiction writer Octavia Butler has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park. The reclusive writer, who moved to Seattle in 1999 from her native Southern California, was a giant in stature (she was 6 feet tall by age 15) and in accomplishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a horrible and unfitting end to her life. <\/p>\n

I’ve only read Dawn<\/i><\/a>, but I’ve wanted to read Kindred<\/i><\/a> and some of her other work for as long as I’ve known about her, which has been several years now. Dawn<\/i> is a wonderful book, one that will really work to take you outside your comfort level in terms of human-alien relations. But that’s what Butler’s work was about: Challenging comfortable conventions, and bringing race and gender and sexuality into the often white male sci-fi equation. And she did it with a grace and beauty that doesn’t quite make it into a lot of other science fiction.<\/p>\n

The literary world will need to work hard to replace Butler; she was one-of-a-kind.<\/p>\n

(HT: Hugo<\/a>)<\/p>\n

*Taken from Octavia Butler quotation<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Science-fiction writer Octavia Butler has died. Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park. The reclusive writer, who moved to Seattle in 1999 from her native Southern California, was a giant in stature (she was 6 feet tall by age 15) and in accomplishment. What a horrible and unfitting end to her life. I’ve only read Dawn, but I’ve wanted to read Kindred… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}