Here, Devil Girl strides into a pub and tells its armed patrons their puny little guns are no match for her. Imagine you can destroy me with your old-fashioned toy.īATES: That really bad 1954 sci-fi movie was "Devil Girl From Mars," she tells a UCLA audience. PATRICIA LAFFAN: (As Nyah) You poor lamented humans. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS") The early ones were about horses, but when she was 9, Octavia Butler stumbled upon something that would change her life.īUTLER: I was influenced to write science fiction two years after I began writing other things by a bad movie. Young Octavia spent her time reading and writing stories. And also, I was a strange kid who'd learned to stay by herself and make things up.īATES: That's Butler, who died in 2006, talking to "Sci-Fi Buzz." The strange kid grew up in her widowed mother's Pasadena home. OCTAVIA BUTLER: I'm an only child, and I had no idea how to get along with other children. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Octavia Butler's vivid imagination was the product of a smart kid who spent a lot of time alone. Here's Karen Grigsby Bates from our Code Switch team. The Huntington Library just north of LA is honoring Butler and her work in an exhibition this summer. Her name is Octavia Butler, and she was a literary giant in the world of science fiction, a genre that was and is dominated by white men. And we're going to spend the next few minutes hearing about an African-American woman who would not let cultural norms stand in the way of her imagination.
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