The Atlantic
May 2, 2023 - 21 min
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Somehow, she knew this time would come," Tiya Miles writes. "The sweltering heat and receding lakes, the melting away of civil society and political stability, the light-year leaps in artificial intelligence—Octavia Butler foresaw them all." Here, she reflects on why we need Butler's conception of 'histofuturism' now more than ever. Read by Sharon McCune.