All Hail Octavia Butler: The Mother of Science Fiction and Afrofuturism

Self-Love Literature

“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God
is Change.” 

-Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

At the tender age of 9, Octavia Butler ascended into her destiny. Endowed with a keen ability to imagine fictional worlds far beyond the limitations of society, Butler left an influential ripple within the science fiction universe for generations to come. The beauty in her literary career lies in the prophetic notion that B...