In case any of you are in New Mexico ...
Laura M. Quilter / lauramd@uic.edu
Electronic Services Librarian
University of Illinois at Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/~lauramd/
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be
in your revolution." -- Emma Goldman
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:03:25 -0700
From: Gene Bundy <BUNDYG@GOLDEN.ENMU.EDU>
Reply-To: Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv <SF-LIT@RS8.LOC.GOV>
To: Multiple recipients of list SF-LIT <SF-LIT@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Subject: Octavia Butler
Internationally-acclaimed author Octavia Butler will visit the Eastern New
Mexico University campus on the 8th and 9th of May, 1997. Butler is the
multiple winner of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Hugo and
the Nebula; she was also awarded the MacArthur Foundation's "young genius"
award in 1995. The first African-American female author writing in science
fiction, Butler's publications include: the Patternmaster series, the
Xenogenesis series, Kindred, Parable of the Sower and Bloodchild and other
Stories.
Ms. Butler will speak in Buchanan Hall Thursday evening, 8 May, at 7 pm.
Eastern welcomes all those interested in Butler and her work; there will be
no charge for attendance. For more information contact Marilyn Mehaffy
(mehaffym@email.enmu.edu), Patrice Caldwell (Patrice.Caldwell@enmu.edu), or
AnnLouise Keating (keatinga@ziavms.enmu.edu).
Octavia Butler's visit to ENMU is sponsored by Students and Legislators
Supporting Awareness and by the ENMU Diversity Committee.
Gene Bundy
Special Collections Librarian
Eastern New Mexico University
Portales, NM 88130
(505)562-2636
bundyg@golden.enmu.edu
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