Octavia Butler Is Dead

This is just awful.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11593725/

I don't know if you know Octavia Butler's work, but she was one of the best SF writers working. Maybe the best. No one was writing the way she wrote.

I'm broken-hearted here.

Update: here's a link to Dialogic, who has good links to Butler's work, including a link to one of her best stories:

http://dialogic.blogspot.com/2006/02/remembering-octavia-butler-1947-2006.html