Her “Parable of the Sower” has been cited for anticipating a world — and a Los Angeles — wracked by climate change, racism ...
Many have called Butler a prophet for her futuristic prediction on L.A. fires in her novel 'Parable of the Sower,' but her ...
Octavia E. Butler didn’t like to wait for inspiration. In fact, the celebrated science fiction author denounced the idea of ...
The Palisades and Eaton fires have already become among the five most destructive blazes on record in California, the New ...
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 ...
From raging fires to a politician promising to Make America Great Again - Octavia Butler's novels are eerily prophetic.
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 ...