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Octavia Butler's prescient novels offer a roadmap for survival in our changing world. Discover how her Afrofuturist works inspire hope and action.

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 ...

Authors Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due are leaning into Butler’s Afrofuturistic vision to save hearts “in the midst of stress.” In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia ...

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 ...