morganlf, I'm looking your way...

[go_team]

Where do I start reading the works of Octavia Butler? Anybody? You don't have to be morganlf to answer.

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[boojum.livejournal.com]

I like the Lilith's Brood trilogy (first one's _Dawn_, I believe, if you run into them separately) and half of the Clay's Ark series, whatever it's named. (I like _Wild Seed_ and _Mind of My Mind_, don't mind _Patternmaster_, and never end up rereading _Clay's Ark_.) The order on that one is...hmm. Read _Wild Seed_ before _Mind of My Mind_ before _Patternmaster_. Chronologically, they go _Wild Seed_, {_Mind of My Mind_ and _Clay's Ark_ contemporaneously}, then _Patternmaster_, but I don't know if that's the order she wrote them in.

_Kindred_ and the two _Parables_ books are too dark for me to reread often, but if you like dark, try those first.

Mmm, Octavia Butler. Did you know she was teaching a class at one of the other 5C our senior year? Argh, wasted opportunities.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Just the other day I remembered somebody telling me we'd missed the chance to take a class from her; now I'm pretty sure it was you. Yay, random memory!

[bookerz.livejournal.com]

And speaking of missed opportunities, check this out: David Foster Wallace is a prof at Pomona. TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING!!!!

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Dude, that made headlines while I was still at Mudd. Where have you been? (Also, check out avani's LJ archives for at least one funny story about DFW in action; the episode I'm thinking of was in earlyish 2003, IIRC.)

[bookerz.livejournal.com]

Hmm, maybe you have to be her friend.