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 ...
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 ...
As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...
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 ...
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — 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 ...
Influential writer Octavia Butler's literary legend may spread to a new type of fanbase with the introduction of a graphic novel adaptation of "Parable of the Talents," originally published as a novel ...
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What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago
Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of ...
LA is burning again. This time, it's north of Santa Clarita. There, a wildfire "exploded in size across two counties on Wednesday [and] into Thursday." When will this end? What is to be done? During ...
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