Growing up, Butler was shy and dyslexic, spending many of her hours at the local library. When she began writing at the age of seven, she made up stories about horses despite knowing nothing about the ...

In “Parable of the Sower,” Octavia E. Butler writes about a brutal, mid-2020s Southern California ravaged by wildfire, earthquakes and an addictive pharmaceutical that fuels a destructive drug ...

Susana M. Morris’s biography draws on the science fiction writer’s journals to reveal her genius, and her doubts ...

Grant Hoskins noticed the uptick of people coming in for a certain book after the fires. The Vroman’s bookseller saw all sorts of readers, teens, college students, parents and grandparents, “as broad ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Decades ago, the ...

The KUOW Book Club is reading " Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler " by Susana M. Morris this month.

The Highland Project’s Gabrielle Wyatt observes that Octavia E. Butler envisioned our current world with eerie precision, but her prophecies were not exercises in gloom. They provided a blueprint for ...

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and ...

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ALTADENA, Calif. – Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los Angeles ravaged by fires. The Altadena cemetery where the science fiction and Afrofuturism author is buried did catch fire ...