that we're still having to break ground in spaces where we were always valid. - when i think about the future of sci-fi, i think about a lot of these amazing black sci-fi writers who tell stories in a different way about the future how it's really gonna change the narrative of what the future could look like. - it's really exciting to see these celebrated books that are part of the afrofuturist canon are being adapted into screens big and small. octavia butler's books are in the canon of sci-fi. people all over the world are studying her works and now they're being adapted into television. they've been adapted into graphic novels and now we're gonna see them in tv. - a lot of my early writing had to do with my own feelings of powerlessness. there are no real walls around science fiction.