@npr Octavia Butler’s career started with a bad movie. When Butler – who is remembered as one of the greatest American science fiction writers of all time – watched the British sci-fi film “Devil Girl from Mars” at the age of 12, her first thought was, “Geez, I can write a better story than that.” And so she did. Throughout a very successful decades-long writing career, Butler combined history, science fiction, and fantasy to imagine a liberated future through a Black lens. Her alternate realiti

37K views · 151 reactions | Director Tate Taylor, Juliette Lewis, and her young costars reveal what it's like to work with Octavia Spencer, and how her obsession with "murder TV shows" helped form her character in MA. https://imdb.to/2W1qYrS | IMDb | Facebook

35K views · 95 reactions | The Octavia Lab, named after the award-winning science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, is a do-it-yourself makerspace located inside the Los Angeles Public Library’s historic Central Library. Octavia Lab provides library cardholders free and unlimited access to state-of-the-art design, fabrication, preservation, and story-telling technologies. lapl.org/labs | Los Angeles Public Library | Facebook