I found this blog by Eleanor Arnason as I researched material for Women of Futures Past. Eleanor has kindly allowed me to share it here. The blog originally appeared in Strange Horizons, and articulates exactly how I felt as I…
Tag: Octavia Butler
Guest Blog by Cat Rambo
The first women in sf anthology I’m doing for Baen Books will only cover stories from the 20th century, which meant I would have to leave out writers who have come to prominence in the 21st century. So I’m going…
Speech Sounds by Octavia Butler
I’ve been going through the list of stories that won or were nominated for Hugos, and I came across an Octavia Butler story I had never read before. For some reason, I figured “Speech Sounds” was a mainstream story, and…