Rather than politically utopian, Butler’s stories teach us about grief, consolation, hope, and—most of all—how to live in struggle.
Gerry Canavan
Gerry Canavan is an associate professor in the English Department at Marquette University, specializing in 20th- and 21st-century literature. An editor at Extrapolation and Science Fiction Film and Television, he coedited Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction (Wesleyan University Press, 2014), The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction (Cambridge, 2015), and The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (Cambridge, 2019). He is the author of Octavia E. Butler (University of Illinois Press, 2016). 