Organizing Dialogue, Experience and Knowledge for Complex Problem-Solving
by Latoya Peterson • October 19th, 2011
*Trigger Warning/Spolier Alert* “Are we going back home?” Vivan asked. Karl glanced at her, then looked around. He realized that he was heading back toward Palo Verde. He had left home heading nowhere in particular except away from Mary and Doro. Now he had made a large U and was heading back to them. And […]
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Read Moreby Latoya Peterson • August 12th, 2011
[Doro] glanced at Rina in annoyance. Rina shrank back against the wall. “What’s the matter with you?” he asked. “Do you think you’re safer over there?” “Don’t hurt me,” she said. “Please.” “Why would you beat a three-year-old like that, Rina?” “I didn’t do it! I swear. It was a guy who brought me home […]
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Read Moreby Latoya Peterson • August 5th, 2011
Next week, we will move on to the second book in the Patternist series, Mind of My Mind. But first, let’s close out Wild Seed. I found myself coming back to two main ideas after reading. (Spoilers ahead – but you should be keeping up with the reading.) The first was a question for myself: […]
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Read Moreby Latoya Peterson • July 11th, 2011
So, Book Clubbers, I need to resolve a little problem that’s popped up. Over the weekend, I read Survivor using the link that commenter FtrYBFMD provided. On one hand, I can see why Butler hated the novel. Her novels are generally known for complicated morality – this one reads pretty clearly. There aren’t really good […]
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Read Moreby Latoya Peterson • July 8th, 2011
Our friends at Clutch shouted out the Book Club – to somewhat hilarious ends. I saw this comment and just about fell out with laughter. sci-fi writer JULY 1, 2011 AT 10:28 PM I am happy to see so many women getting interested in the male-dominated sci-fi genre. Octavia Butler is a great writer and […]
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Read Moreby Latoya Peterson • July 7th, 2011
Doro discovered the woman by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages. The village was a comfortable mud-walled palace surrounded by grasslands and scattered trees. But Doro realized before he reached it that it’s people were gone. Slavers had been to it before him. With their guns […]
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Read Moreby Latoya Peterson • June 29th, 2011
Octavia Butler was Racialicious before we even existed. The late author is a cult icon, being a boundry breaking black woman in Science Fiction who infused her writing with rich societal commentary on race, gender, dominance, and much much more. Last year, the University Press of Mississippi was kind enough to send me a review […]
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