I know most people here are fans of sci-fi, and so I thought you should know that Octavia Butler, the only professional female black writer in the field, died a week ago. She was also the best writer in the field, in my opinion:
http://darkush.blogspot.com/2006/02/oct ... urday.html
Great writer dies
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Shanti418
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The Lilith's Brood trilogy was ace. A great loss.
Best First wrote:I thought we could just meander between making well thought out points, being needlessly immature, provocative and generalist, then veer into caring about constructive debate and make a few valid points, act civil for a bit, then lower the tone again, then act offended when we get called on it, then dictate what it is and isn't worth debating, reinterpret a few of my own posts through a less offensive lens, then jaunt down whatever other path our seemingly volatile mood took us in.