From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

Japanese YouTuber Uketsu is best known for wearing a white papier-mache mask and making very surreal content. Now, he’s a ...

In their new show at Pioneer Works in New York, American Artist reflects on Butler’s most famous series of novels and her ...

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re living in an Octavia Butler novel. The fires the queen of Afrofuturism predicted would ...

1 FOURTH WING (Red Tower, $20.99). By Rebecca Yarros. A young woman competes to secure a spot at an elite war college for ...

Octavia Butler Imagined ... University and co-editor of Butler’s work for the Library of America, told the AP in 2020. “It’s hard not to read the books and think ‘How did she know?’” ...

As wildfires scorched the Los Angeles area in January 2025, a number of Snopes readers and commentators (archived) pointed out similarities between current events and the plot of Octavia Butler's 1993 ...

This week we take a look at past books that touch on subjects related ... “Parable of the Sower,” by Octavia E. Butler: Speculative fiction set largely in a future (now present) Southern ...

Best to be early for the scavenging ... Accessed 17 Jan. 2025. Octavia Butler on "Parable" Books and Predicting Climate Chaos in 2005. Democracy Now!, 13 Jan. 2025, https://www.youtube.com ...

All that you touch you change.  All that you change changes you.  The only lasting truth is change.  God is change. –Lauren ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...