PFDW #20 Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower ( an Interview with Damian Duffy & John Jennings)

Since her untimely death in 2006 the Science Fiction world has come to realize that Octavia Butler is one of its most important voices.  This year for the first time her 1995 classic made the bestseller list because the 25-year-old book sadly casts a light on our modern world far too well. In this episode, I interviewed an artist and writing duo Damian Duffy and John Jennings.  They carrying the flag for Butler in one of the most exciting ways possible. Starting with Butler's classic novel about the horrors of Slavery Kindred. The book went on to win the 2017 Bram Stoker award for the best graphic novel. This year they followed that release with an adaptation of Butler's most popular book The Parable of the Sower. This interview is a fun look at the process beyond the creation of the books, the choices the team made adapting the novel, and of course the importance of Octavia Butler. John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Damian Duffy Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches courses on computers & culture, and social media & global change. •You can find my books here: https://bookshop.org/contributors/david-agranoff •   You can find my books here:  Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/