There is also a Wells crater, named for HG Wells, who imagined a Martian invasion in The War of the Worlds and a Heinlein crater for Robert A Heinlein, whose Stranger in a Strange Land tells of a human raised by Martians who comes to Earth. The Curiosity rover’s touchdown point was named Bradbury Landing by Nasa in 2012, in recognition of the late Ray Bradbury, while in 1997, the Mars Pathfinder lander was renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station in honour of the scientist and writer. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona That magical spot in Jezero crater where NASA’s Perseverance. Nasa’s naming of the Perseverance’s touchdown site is an unofficial one, with official scientific names for places and objects in the solar system designated by the International Astronomical Union.īutler is only the latest science-fiction author to be honoured on Mars. The Perseverance landing site on Mars is now named Octavia E. We have to be going some place other than down the toilet.” For her, Mars remains a dream: “We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who’ve made such a hell of life here on Earth.” A tiny yellow star gives the precise location where the. “It’s hard to get anyone to see that, though, when there’s so much suffering going on just outside our walls.” America might be “barely a nation at all anymore, but I’m glad we’re still in space. Once Perseverance had landed in the Jezero Crater, NASA folks decided to name the touch-down spot. “Space exploration and colonisation are among the few things left over from the last century that can help us more than they hurt us,” Butler’s heroine Lauren Olamina writes in Parable of the Sower. The latter was set in the 2020s, where climate change and inequality have turned America into a place of chaos its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents, sees a violent, far-right president ascend, promising to “make America great again”. “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.Butler, the first African American woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the first sci-fi writer honoured with a MacArthur “genius” grant, is the author of novels including Kindred Bloodchild, as well as the remarkably prescient 1993 dystopia Parable of the Sower. Octavia’s Bookshelf is scheduled to open in February 2023, and we wish them success. Nikki left her job of 15 years to start the bookstore and has rented a space and begun a site “I read a lot of science fiction with absolutely no discrimination when I was growing up-I mean, good, bad, or awful. “For being a black female growing up in Los Angeles in the ’60s, she was attracted to science fiction for the same reasons I was: It liberated her.” Young Butler read voraciously. Seattle-based science fiction writer Greg Bear said. And I just thought it was a neat way to honor all of the Octavias in our life,” High said. (They are close to their goal) “I also like to think that we all have an Octavia in our lives - someone who is before their time, a wordsmith. High has received some funding support for the bookstore through GoFundMe where updates on the store’s progress have been posted. Butler papers are housed at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, adjacent to Pasadena. Butler’s Fledgling is being developed for TV by Issa Rae & J.J. Kindred follows a twenty-something Black woman in modern-day Los Angeles who finds herself pulled back in time to the Antebellum South, along with her boyfriend. Octavia Butler is revered for her afro-centric works, including Kindred (now a series on Hulu), the Patternist series and Parable of the Sower. The Mars landing took place nearly 15 years to the day after her death. On March 5, 2021, NASA named the site for the renowned American science fiction author, Octavia E. In 2010 she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and in 2021 NASA named the landing site of the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater on Mars the “Octavia E. Butler Landing is the February 18, 2021, landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover within Jezero crater on planet Mars. Butler, who died of a stroke at the age of 58, was also a Guggenheim fellow and recipient of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. High chose the name as a tribute to Pasadena native, science-fiction author and MacArthur fellow Octavia Butler who died in 2006. Nikki High said she hopes her store will highlight authors who are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. Butler is opening in Pasadena, California, where the late Sci-Fi icon was born and raised. Literary good news to start the year: a new independent bookstore named after legendary author Octavia E.
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