4. Dear Octavia Butler...
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
'Dear Octavia Butler,
I’ve just been binge-watching Severance on Apple TV: it’s a dystopian-future kind of thing. It’s OK. I think you’d enjoy it...'
From the puffed up and overpraised, to those he thinks may have been unfairly discounted, Ian Sansom imagines he's writing to some key figures from modern literary history.
Apparently it's the turn of the late American sci-fi writer Octavia Butler to receive some of Ian's dispatches.
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