The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The fires stand as a monumental example of nature’s destructive potential when accelerated by ...

Chris Gunn Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of waiting for one’s muse. “Habit is more dependable ...

As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...

In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...

January 2 is National Science Fiction Day, and ESSENCE is paying tribute to one of the greatest sci-fi novelists of all time, Octavia Estelle Butler. Named after her mother Octavia Margaret Guy ...

Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity.

Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.

The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have ...