From H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine to Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild, via stories from George R. R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin, here are the results. The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien.

Bloodchild cover art by Wayne D. Barlowe. When Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred was assigned to me in a university literature course, I didn’t know what I was in for. Assigned books can be like ...

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 ...

ESSAY - Many of us thought about Butler, who died in 2006, on her recent June 22 birthday -- but her work lives on. A graphic adaptation of Butler’s seminal time-travel novel 'Kindred' might ...

This month, which also happens to be Octavia E. Butler’s birth month, marks the third anniversary of my organization The Highland Project, a nonprofit investing in the sustainability and multi ...

Anyway, I digress. I wanted to talk to Dr. Ayana Jamieson, a professor at Cal Poly Pomona and founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. She’s been reading and thinking about Octavia Butler for ...

At Octavia E. Butler Magnet’s library, students can see her picture in the 1961 yearbook, her eighth grade promotion certificate, assignments, even report cards from her time at the school.

One of my favorite writers is Octavia Butler because her work is unlike anything I’d ever read. What I love most about her work is that it pushed literary boundaries around gender, violence, race and ...

Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler. Octavia Butler’s status as a SFF icon is undisputed and universally appreciated. The late great legend of the genre had a reputation for using the ...

When Octavia E. Butler published her dystopian novel Parable of the Sower in 1993, the year in which it begins—2024—must have felt far away. Still, Butler was able to predict, with eerie ...