ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world ...

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

Octavia Butler’s works are more than just stories; they are profound explorations of humanity’s deepest fears, desires, and ...

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

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

The death toll from the Los Angeles-area wildfires is 24 people, according to the LA County Medical Examiner. The medical ...

Firefighters around Los Angeles are preparing to attack flare-ups or new blazes. The National Weather Service issued a rare ...

ALTADENA, Calif. — 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 catch ...