Octavia Butler: the dyslexic Black woman who became sci-fi's greatest prophet. Growing up poor in 1950s Pasadena, she faced rejection for years—but kept writing. Her 1993 novel predicted climate crisis, fascism, and "Make America Great Again." When she won the MacArthur Genius Grant, she bought her mother—a lifelong maid—a house. She didn't write to help us escape reality. She wrote to warn us. DISCLAIMER: This story is based on publicly available biographical information about Octavia Butler's
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