Octavia Butler ends her short essay on writing, “Furor Scribendi” with a single word: persist. Her contribution to science fiction broadly and afrofuturism specifically has been her labor envisioning a multiplicity of futures–and what is vision but speculation that persisted? This annotated bibliography tracks several of Butler’s novels and short stories which were written as acts of speculation and which have persisted as key narratives for authors at the intersection of disability studies and Black women’s speculative practices.
You can access the open-access annotated bibliography through Third Stone Journal, which is devoted to Afrofuturism and other modes of the Black Fantastic. A link to the bibliography is available here: What is Vision but Speculation Persevering?
