This is the KUOW Book Club, and we’re wrapping up "Fledgling" by Octavia Butler. I'm your club guide, Katie Campbell. cannot emphasize enough what a shame it is that we lost Octavia Butler, an author ...

You voted and we listened: KUOW's book club will read "Fledgling" by Octavia Butler this month. (Thank you to everyone who voted in the summer survey to help me pick this month's read — y'all have ...

In 2000 I made my way up the walkway of a house outside of Seattle with my husband, author Steven Barnes, to see his longtime friend Octavia Butler. We were greeted by the sound of Motown music ...

Octavia Butler, 58, one of the country's leading science fiction writers who as an African American woman brought themes of race, gender and power to the genre, died of an apparent stroke Feb. 24 at ...