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i remember octavia butler fondly as the wierdest author i read as a kid

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octavia butler: weird lonely gender-nonconforming black lady/nerd girl who did a better job writing interesting speculative fiction that explored themes of race, gender, sex, sexuality, religion, and community than pretty much any modern science fiction author exploring the same

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7:18 AM · Oct 5, 2022

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Definitely up there, also Ursula Le Guin also for The Left Hand of Darkness, which is a very clever book.

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she is super weird and I love her for it

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Fully agree. Love them.