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

The 5000 Black Afro-Futurist Series brings together creatives in Charleston SC to imagine a future where the African Diaspora ...

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

It is a growth parable. Parable Meaning Significance for today A man went out to sow grain. The man represents God and the seed is His message. Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of ...

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Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important ...

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The importance of Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower continues to crystalize, as Butler’s prescient imagining of urban ...

The parable of the sower is an 'allegory' about the Kingdom of God. In other words, it can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, everything in the story represents something else. It is a ...

Three is the sweet spot. It took me three tries to get what Octavia Butler was trying to do with Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. I think. I’m still not sure. But I’ve now read ...