Instead there are thousands of answers–at least.
“I mean there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. “No answer? You mean we’re just doomed?” He smiled as though he thought this might be a joke. ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’ “I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. The young man was referring to the troubles I’d described in Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, novels that take place in a near future of increasing drug addiction and illiteracy, marked by the popularity of prisons and the unpopularity of public schools, the vast and growing gap between the rich and everyone else, and the whole nasty family of problems brought on by global warming. “SO DO YOU REALLY believe that in the future we’re going to have the kind of trouble you write about in your books?” a student asked me as I was signing books after a talk. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” Reflection : When a student asks Butler what the answer is to ending the suffering in the world, she replies, “…there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well as our limitations. To learn more about the Carl Brandon Society, please read our Mission Statement and visit our site’s other pages.Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. We are a nonprofit organization, and donations made to the fund will be tax deductible. In addition, Octavia was an early member of the Carl Brandon Society. The Fund is being administered by the Carl Brandon Society because its mission is consistent with one of the Society’s primary goals: increasing the representation of people of color in the fantastical genres such as science fiction, fantasy and horror. Winner of many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, and speculative fiction’s highest honors, the Hugo and the Nebula, Octavia was greatly loved during her lifetime and will be greatly missed.
Butler (1947 – 2006) was a brilliant African American writer who broke barriers with her courageous and profoundly truthful books and stories. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund.” Then mail your donation to: If you’d prefer to make your donation in the form of a check or money order, please make it payable to “The Carl Brandon Society” and note that it is for “The Octavia E. Please use the button to the right of the page to donate via PayPal or a major credit card. We welcome your tax deductible gift of any amount to this fund. Our goal for a fully endowed scholarship fund is $100,000. To learn more about these workshops, visit the Clarion website and the Clarion West website. If you are accepted as a workshop student, your application materials will be forwarded to the scholarship’s selection committee. Applications are accepted from December of the year preceding the workshops till March of the workshop year. In order to become a Butler Scholar you should first apply to one or both of the Clarion Workshops, noting on your application(s) that you wish to be considered. As of the summer of 2018, 21 Butler Scholarships have been awarded. Butler Memorial Scholarships were awarded in the summer of 2007, and they have been awarded annually each subsequent year at the conclusion of the Clarion and Clarion West Workshops. In addition to her stint as a student at the original Clarion Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania in 1970, Octavia taught several times for Clarion West in Seattle, Washington, and Clarion in East Lansing, Michigan, giving generously of her time to a cause she believed in. It furthers Octavia’s legacy by providing the same experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers of color. Butler Memorial Scholarship enables writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start.
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