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Sun, 05/04/2008 - 3:32pm — Visitor

by Georg N., Washington, DC

She had a presence that was more Ananyu than anything else,
with a deep sonorous voice that whispered from a place
that you felt like you remembered that knew you once knew but had forgotten.

So let me tell you what I had in my archive.
I met her writing through Harlan Ellison, a science fiction writer who said she was one of the best writers he had ever read.
Harlan Ellison was a science fiction writer and bon vivant in the 60s.
He was a darling of hollywood and a screen writer and editor.

The first book of hers that I read was Dawn.
It stayed with me.
She has an acute sharp ability to write about psychological issues
through the lens of speculative fiction and science fiction.

She was a recluse. Essence did an article on her, when I was about
20 something. My Grand Aunt had all of her books and we often
spoke about her vision of the way we interact as people.

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