The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
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28 Must-Read Fantasy Books, According to a Librarian
The 2005 novel Fledgling is controversial and intense. Octavia E. Butler was the queen of speculative fiction, and her books often pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable and expected ...
Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler Predicted LA Fires In "Parable Of The Sower"
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
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The Pasadena Bookstore Taking Cues From Octavia E. Butler
A period of personal reflection during the 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn’t exist here ...
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Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who lived in nearby Altadena, predicted the catastrophic Los Angeles fires. View this post on Instagram ...
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Who Is Right About the LA Wildfires: Octavia Butler or the Fonz?
The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...
Writer Octavia Butler imagined an LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism ...
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Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
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 ...