Shelley Streeby is Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism.
Science Fiction Ecologies: How Octavia Butler used science fiction to think about ecological collapse – book excerpt
Environmental struggles were still on Butler’s mind as she brainstormed in the last years of her life for what would have been her last novel, Spiritus.
October 23, 2026
