Groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote her first 10 novels on a powder blue manual typewriter, now an artifact in the Smithsonian Institution's collection.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Octavia E. Butler blocked reprints of her novel "Survivor," which was first published in 1978. (Joshua Trujillo / seattlepi.com ...

“I am too alone, too slow, too lazy, too undisciplined, too little in my big body. I talk too much — and too little — saying too often the wrong thing.” Octavia Butler wrote these words in her ...

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