Non-fiction anthology: Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia Butler

Editors (alphabetically listed):  Mimi Mondal  |  Alexandra Pierce

Language:  English

Bibliographic comments:

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler

Alexandra Pierce, Mimi Mondal, eds.

2017

Library edition: August 2017, 1st edition

Twelfth Planet Press

ISBN 978-1-922101-43-3

Digital

$6.26

Notes:

  •  Introductions by Alexandra Pierce and Mimi Mondal.

Essays: Alaya Dawn Johnson, Dear Octavia  //   Sheree Renée Thomas, Dear Octavia, Octavia E. Butler, Ms. Butler,

Mother of Changes  //  Karen Lord, Writing the World Into Being  //  Nisi Shawl, My One-and-Only Octavia  //  Moya

Bailey, Dear Octavia  //  Tara Betts, Dear Octavia  //  Z. M. Quỳnh, Octavia Butler – Master Cultural Translator  //  Ben

H. Winters, Dear Ms. Butler  //  Hoda Zaki, Dear Octavia  //  Brenda Tyrrell, Dear Ms. Butler  //  Connie Samaras,

Dear Octavia  //  Jennifer Marie Brissett, Dear Ms. Butler  //  Rebecca Holden, "Let's Dwell a Little": The Trickster

Within Octavia E. Butler  //  Andrea Hairston, Octavia Butler – Praise Song to a Prophetic Artist  //  Jewelle Gomez,

The Final Frontier  //  Sophia Echevarria, Dear Octavia  //  Tiara Janté, Thank You for Being Fearless: A Letter to

Octavia E. Butler  // K. Ceres Wright, Dear Octavia  //  Valjeanne Jeffers, Themes of Power, Family and Change in

Octavia Butler's Wild Seed  //  Raffaella Baccolini, Nationalism, Reproduction, and Hybridity in Octavia E. Butler's

Bloodchild  //  Tuere T. S. Ganges, Dear Octavia  //  Cat Sparks, War Is Very Popular These Days  //  Joan

Slonczewski, Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy: A Biologist's Response  //  Elizabeth Stephens, Dear Octavia  //  

Aurelius Raines, II, A Missive from the Last Stall  //  Jeffrey Allen Tucker, Dear Octavia Butler  // Paul Weimer, Dear

Ms. Butler  //  Gerry Canavan, Disrespecting Octavia  //  Ruth Salvaggio, Octavia Butler and the Black Science-Fiction

Heroine  //  Sandra Y. Govan, Connections, Links, and Extended Networks: Patterns in Octavia Butler's Science

Fiction  //  Kathleen Kayembe, The Butler Effect  //  Jeremy Sim, Dear Octavia  //  Mary Elizabeth Burroughs, Dear

Ms Butler  //  Indra Das, Dear Octavia Butler  //  Lisa Bennett Bolekaja, Dear Octavia  //  Christopher Caldwell, Dear

Octavia E. Butler  //  Hunter Liguore, Facing Dyslexia: A Letter to Octavia Butler  //  Joyce Chng, Missives Through

the Multiverse: Ephemeral Letters to Octavia Butler  //  Stephen R. Gold, Ms. Butler  //  Michele Tracy Berger, Dear

Octavia  //  Rachel Swirsky, Dear Octavia  //  Stephanie Burgis, Dear Octavia  //  Bogi Takács, Dear Octavia  //  

Asata Radcliffe, Octavia  //  Nnedi Okorafor, butler8star@qwest.net  //  K. Tempest Bradford, Dear Ms. Butler  //  

Kate Gordon, Dear Ms Butler  //  Cat Rambo, Dear Octavia  //  Amanda Emily Smith, Dear Octavia  //  Alex

Jennings, To Octavia Butler, Elsewhere  //  Cassandra Brennan, Dear Ms. Butler  //  L. Timmel Duchamp, A Letter to

Octavia Butler  //  Rasha Abdulhadi, Dear Kindred Teacher  //  Steven Barnes, Dear Octavia  //  De Witt Douglas

Kilgore, Ranu Samantrai, A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler

Interview: Stephen W. Potts, We Keep Playing the Same Record: A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler