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Fellow explorers of space and time, and of sensation and texture. Dirty writers, dirty thinkers, dirty drinkers, dirty sexplorers, corporeal interlopers, present-day action heroes. Daring fools and sages, rope riggers and sluts, fetishists, and extremely tense people who will allow me to pluck merrily at their tension.
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Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) RIP"Still I'm asked, what good is science fiction to Black people? What good is any form of literature to Black people? What good is science fiction's thinking about the present, the future, and the past? What good is its tendency to warn or to consider alternative ways of thinking and doing? What good is its examination of the possible effects of science and technology, or social organization and political direction? At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow footpath of what 'everyone' is saying, doing, thinking - whoever 'everyone' happens to be this year. And what good is all this to Black people?" - Octavia Estelle Butler, "Positive Obsession," 1989