"The future is not pretty and shiny. It has all the same problems that we have now." American Artist told ARTnews.
Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven and a hub for mutual aid resources and support.
Although Butler passed away in 2006, her Parable of the Sower, " a speculative novel predicted the hell that's 2025.
The Eaton Fire narrowly spares the cemetery housing Octavia Butler’s grave, as Altadena—the historic Black community she once ...
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...
Workers at the Mountain View cemetery had unique concerns the night the Eaton fire broke out. The 55-acre expanse may also have spared some homes from the flames.
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
Bookshelves have been replaced with food and toiletries, bins with packs of toothbrushes and other items were piled high in ...
The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...