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

The 2005 novel Fledgling is controversial and intense. Octavia E. Butler was the queen of speculative fiction, and her books often pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable and expected ...

A period of personal reflection during the 2020 pandemic inspired her to open her own bookstore in her and Octavia E. Butler’s hometown. “I wanted to create something that didn’t exist ...

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

In the 1993 speculative fiction classic, American science-fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who lived in nearby Altadena, predicted the catastrophic Los Angeles fires. View this post on Instagram ...

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

The grave of renowned writer Octavia Butler, whose novel Parable of the Sower eerily envisioned fires consuming Los Angeles, ...

Considered one of the first Black female science fiction writers, Octavia Butler’s body of work could be described as made-up, dystopian tales of an alternate universe. You know, on some “War ...

Over 30 years ago, Octavia Butler imagined a Los Angeles, consumed by fires, and last week, the cemetery where the iconic author is buried caught fire amid the ongoing wildfires impacting ...

Octavia’s Bookshelf, the Black-owned bookstore in Pasadena, California, named after Octavia Butler, has transformed into a resource center for victims of the Los Angeles fires. According to NBC ...