![]() ![]() "I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Respondent Ben Allen is a PhD Candidate in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford. The result is an illuminating study of how an essential SF figure shaped themes, unconventional ideas, and an unflagging creative urge into brilliant works of fiction. Canavan departs from other studies to approach Butler first and foremost as a science fiction writer working within, responding to, and reacting against the genre's particular canon. ![]() Drawing on Butler's personal papers, Canavan tracks the false starts, abandoned drafts, tireless rewrites, and real-life obstacles that fed Butler's frustrations and launched her triumphs. Gerry Canavan offers a critical and holistic consideration of Butler's career. Butler (UI Press 2016) and the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction, and Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. ![]() Gerry Canavan is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University. Please contact for the pre-circulated reading. Gerry Canavan will present material from his most recent book, Octavia E. ![]()
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