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Malka Older, Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord: We Will Rise Again
Darcie Little Badger, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Jaymee Goh, Karin Lowachee, Tobias Buckell, Nisi Shawl, Andrea Hairston, Anil Menon, Indrapramit Das, Steven Barnes, Minsoo Kang, E. Lily Yu, Rebecca Roanhorse, LeVar Burton, Kathleen Alcalá, Chinelo Onwualu, Alex Jennings, Alberto Yanez, Hiromi Goto: New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (2019, Solaris)
Nisi Shawl: Everfair (2016)

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovič Bogdanov: Red Star (2006, Indiana University Press)
Becky Chambers: Monje y Robot (Paperback, Castellano language)
N. K. Jemisin, Kai Cheng Thom, Charlie Jane Anders, G. Willow Wilson, Seanan McGuire, Malka Older, Charles Yu, Sam J. Miller, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Gabby Rivera, Justina Ireland, A. Merc Rustad, Ashok K. Banker, Lizz Huerta, Catherynne M. Valente, John Joseph Adams, Tobias S Buckell, Maria Dahvana Headley, Daniel H. Wilson, Alice Sola Kim, Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, Daniel José Older, Omar El Akkad (duplicate), Hugh Howey, Violet Allen, Jamie Ford: A People's Future of the United States (Paperback, 2019, One World, Random House Publishing Group)

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Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed (50th Anniversary Edition) (EBook, 2024, Harper Collins)
John Scalzi: The President's Brain is Missing (2011, Tor Books)
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed (Hardcover, 1991, Harper Paperbacks)

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@aster Short answer: Yes, yes, she did. Octavia used to call her typewriter* her "time machine". See here: www.washingtoninformer.com/smithsonians-anacostia-community-museum-octavia-e-butlers-typewriter-as-time-machine/

Technical trivia aside, indeed, this book is so prescient it's scary. As in, really scary. That she could imagine a utopian community springing out of this utter hell still baffles me.

  • It was an Olivetti Studio 46, a fine manual typewriter. Octavia didn't buy a computer until the very last years of her life.