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Friday, June 11, 2004

Festival features black writers specializing in science fiction

The Seattle area is suddenly awash in new and exciting weekend celebrations of writing.

Northwest Bookfest may have expired, but other festivals are springing up like spring flowers. Now comes the new "Black to the Future: A Black Science Fiction Festival" sponsored by the Central District Forum.

From tonight through Sunday evening, there will be a host of author appearances and panel discussions, most held in Seattle Center's Northwest Rooms, as well as an opening reception and theatrical performance this evening in the Leo K. Theatre at Seattle Rep, plus films tomorrow and Sunday evenings at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center.

The real stars of the festival are some of the true luminaries among black writers who specialize in science fiction, including Walter Mosley from New York, plus leading lights from the Northwest (Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes). The wondrous Butler, a Seattleite since 1999, remains the only sci-fi writer to receive a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation.

Interviews with most writers will be tomorrow, with Due at 10 a.m., Butler at 2:30 p.m., Mosley at 4:15 p.m.

Daily tickets average $25. Information: 206-323-3032 or www.cdforum.org/bttf/.

-- John Marshall

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