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In Her Inventive and Prescient Stories, Octavia Butler Wrote Herself Into the Science Fiction Canon
Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of ...
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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"We Keep Playing the Same Record": A Conversation with Octavia E. Butler
For readers of this journal, Octavia E. Butler literally needs no introduction ... and she is a science-fiction author who has received a prestigious literary award, to wit, a 1995 grant from the ...
The LA Fires Aren't a Surprise If You Study History and Climate Change. So Now What?
The Palisades and Eaton fires have already become among the five most destructive blazes on record in California, the New ...