![]() ![]() Butler takes its title from one of Butler’s musings on the nature of science fiction, and of artistic creation more generally, reproduced in the book exactly as it appeared in her notebook: “What good is thinking and creating and imagining and getting off the beaten tracks, off the narrow, narrow foot paths of what ‘everybody’ is saying and doing - whoever ‘everybody’ happens to be this year. Lynell George’s A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Piece by piece, bit by bit, this was how she made it happen. “No Entertainment / On Earth / Can Match / A Good Story / Compelling Told,” screams the front cover of one of her writing notebooks for Parable of the Sower underneath, a description of a passionate woman who is “ever building, acquiring, scavenging, trading, seducing, assembling” refers equally both to her character and herself. ![]() Butler never let anything to go to waste - and every piece of paper, every conceivable writing surface, was an opportunity either to exercise her incredible creativity or to remind herself why (and how) she was doing what she was doing. On the page facing the introduction, we see a day-planner where every day bears the command to WRITE on the page after the introduction, we see an ancient envelope bearing the label “Free-floating ideas,” for collection and reconsideration down the line. Butler’s face, her home, her grave, and most importantly her writing, on notebook paper, on Post-it Notes, on the backs of envelopes. WHAT LEAPS OFF the page, at first, are the images: gorgeous full-color reproductions of Octavia E. ![]()
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