Conversations with Octavia Butler

Edited by Conseula Francis
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific career as the only major black female author of science fiction. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as a MacArthur "genius" ...

Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

Edited by Carl Freedman
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. As a gay African American ...

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin

Edited by Carl Freedman
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin assembles interviews with the renowned science-fiction and fantasy author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence ...

Anne McCaffrey

By Robin Roberts
Categories: Popular Culture

Anne McCaffrey: A Life with Dragons is the biography of a writer who vividly depicted alien creatures and new worlds. As the author of the Dragonriders of Pern series, McCaffrey (1926–2011) was one of t ...

Ash of Stars

Edited by James Sallis
Categories: Literature