Discover how Octavia Butler's prescient novel 'Parable of the Sower' serves as a roadmap for survival in our chaotic times.

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia ... Butler’s grasp of science and history and her ability to foresee shifts in American society with unsettling accuracy. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, written ...

Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important political art across genres and mediums that inspire as much as they ...

and from Octavia E. Butler to Iain M. Banks I don’t die from not waking up, and I don’t die falling from the edge of the atmosphere either. I’m not written off on the ledgers as Acceptable Wastage.

In “Silo,” as in these earlier works, powerful people act ruthlessly ... After the wildfires erupted in L.A. last week, many turned to Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 novel, “Parable of the ...

Since getting my Steinway in 1993, I have played it on virtually every film score I’ve written ... artist Charles White and author Octavia E. Butler, who wrote of a wildfire sparked by climate ...

These climate-fueled fires have also drawn renewed attention to the writing of the late Octavia Butler ... that intensify inequality. Written in 1993, Butler’s prophetic book is set in the ...

ALTADENA — Decades ago, the writer Octavia Butler had imagined a Los ... “Parable of the Sower” and other Butler works have been cited for anticipating a world — and, particularly, a ...

a science fiction area that sat next to a shelf dedicated strictly to Butler’s works. Now, instead of books, Octavia’s Bookshelf — which miraculously survived the fire — is filled with ...