![]() ![]() Her novels, including “Dawn,” “Kindred” and “Parable of the Sower,” sell more than 100,000 copies each year, according to her former literary and the manager of her estate, Merrillee Heifetz. “There was just this conspicuous absence where it seemed we all just vanished after a while.”Ī revolutionary voice in her lifetime, Butler has only become more popular and influential since her death 14 years ago, at age 58. “I remember just kind of being stunned that a black woman existed in the future, because science fiction had not done that before,” says Jemisin, whose “The City We Became” is currently a bestseller. ![]() It was the 1980s, and the book was called “Dawn,” the story of a black woman who awakens 250 years after a nuclear holocaust. ![]() Jemisin was a teenager the first time she read Octavia Butler, and nothing had prepared her for it. ![]()
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